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ART<br />
The painter Nick Bodimeade<br />
has been painting<br />
figurative and abstract landscapes<br />
– both far-flung and<br />
familiar – in distinctive and<br />
exuberant style for decades.<br />
This month, in collaboration<br />
with Sarah O’Kane<br />
Contemporary Fine Art,<br />
he opens his home studio<br />
at Hamsey Place Farmhouse.<br />
‘My interest in<br />
landscape and what we do<br />
in it has taken many forms<br />
over the years,’ writes Nick,<br />
‘with paintings of trucks<br />
and motorways, storm and fire-ravaged woodlands,<br />
snow-dusted mountainscapes, beaches and<br />
bathers, skyscapes and vapour trails, New Zealand<br />
bachs and Texan hurricane-proof summer houses,<br />
romantic rural lanes and, currently, the landscaped<br />
gardens of grand country houses. What I think ties<br />
these together are the seductive pleasures of space,<br />
light and elemental physical experience common<br />
to both subject and the making of painting.’ Join<br />
Nick for this exhibition of paintings, prints and<br />
drawings from across his career, as he reflects on<br />
his work to date and ponders where it might take<br />
him next. Open 10am-6pm on 18th, 19th, 25th<br />
and 26th of <strong>May</strong>, or at other times by appointment.<br />
[nickbodimeade.co.uk]<br />
Glyndebourne Lake by Nick Bodimeade<br />
Con trails Stanmer by Nick Bodimeade<br />
The climb to the Beacon by Nichola Campbell<br />
Nichola Campbell is the featured artist at Chalk Gallery<br />
until the 19th of <strong>May</strong>. Inspired by the forests and downland<br />
of East Sussex, and the changing of the seasons, Nichola uses<br />
gestural brush strokes and ink spatters to evoke imagined,<br />
magical places, her playful application of colour as unpredictable<br />
as the weather her paintings seek to capture. ‘I love<br />
my inks for their rich, sparkling colours,’ she writes, ‘and can<br />
just as easily use a brush as a pipette head to brush, blob or<br />
splatter the colour onto the wooden panel surface’. Nichola<br />
will be exhibiting a selection of paintings and prints and will<br />
be in the gallery on Saturday the 4th from 2-4pm, and all<br />
day on Saturday the 18th for a ‘meet the artist’ event. She is<br />
followed from the 20th by Katie Whitbread, whose work in<br />
oils and print is also inspired by the Kent and Sussex landscapes. Continues until the 9th of June.<br />
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