Viva Lewes Issue #156 September 2019
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ART<br />
ART & ABOUT<br />
In town this month<br />
Claudia Wiegand<br />
The Summer<br />
Selfie exhibition<br />
continues at<br />
Chalk Gallery<br />
until the 23rd,<br />
when the gallery<br />
features the work<br />
of contemporary<br />
kiln-formed glass<br />
artist Claudia Wiegand. Indian Summer is<br />
a vibrant display of fused glass artworks and<br />
sculptures inspired by the cool blues and<br />
warm sunset hues of the summer’s end and<br />
Claudia’s passion for trees. Join her for a<br />
‘meet the artist’ event on Saturday 5th October<br />
from 2 to 4pm.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> artist<br />
Samantha<br />
Stas holds<br />
her first solo<br />
exhibition<br />
at Paddock<br />
Studios this<br />
month. In You<br />
Are Here, Samantha<br />
uses<br />
her distinctive<br />
textile and<br />
embroidery pieces to create an engaging,<br />
humorous and thought-provoking insight<br />
into the menopause. Private view Fri 6th<br />
(6-9pm), 7th-8th (10am-4pm).<br />
The Star Life group of artists was founded over 25 years ago in the Star Brewery<br />
studios, united by their shared interest in working from the human figure.<br />
More recently they meet for untutored life drawing sessions at the All Saints<br />
Centre, and this month 15 of the artists hold a group exhibition at <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
House. Celebrating Life features around 50 of their drawings, prints and paintings.<br />
Thursday 26th (2pm-5pm), Friday 27th & Saturday 28th (10am-5pm) and<br />
Sunday 29th (10am-4pm).<br />
Lindy Dunbar<br />
Out of town<br />
Sally-Mae Joseph<br />
Guy Pickford spent 20 years working as a graphic designer and art<br />
director before throwing off the confines of the office job and taking<br />
to the road. Since then he’s been travelling the highways and byways<br />
of England and Europe in his camper van and mobile studio, painting<br />
as he goes. See an exhibition of<br />
his vibrant, impressionistic landscape<br />
paintings at The Yurt Gallery at<br />
Townings Farm Shop, in Chailey.<br />
Over at The Crypt Gallery in Seaford,<br />
local artist Sally-Mae Joseph exhibits her lively and colourful<br />
interpretations of local landscapes: a celebration of her daughter<br />
Debby Van Dyk, who lived locally with her family and who sadly<br />
died of cancer last year, at the age of 43. [thecryptgallery.com]<br />
Guy Pickford<br />
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