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Viva Lewes Issue #157 October 2019

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THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST<br />

Liz Temperley’s studio space, in the Star Brewery,<br />

has a similar aesthetic to her watercolour<br />

illustrations. There is a lot of white space on the<br />

walls and furnishings, complemented by vivid<br />

splashes of colour in the teeming examples of<br />

her work, which is printed on greeting cards,<br />

gift wrap, notebooks, stationery, prints, pencil<br />

cases and more.<br />

In her illustrations, Liz aims to find humour in<br />

the everyday and to show the beauty in animals<br />

and nature, which she describes as her “joyful<br />

style”. The inspiration for this month’s cover<br />

came from a fortuitous visit to a friend’s exhibition<br />

at Breaky Bottom Vineyards. Rusty tones<br />

for the vine leaves were selected for an autumnal<br />

feel. “I like organic forms. So I thought we’ll<br />

go back to the literal interpretation of ‘grape<br />

and grain’, looking at the grape before it gets<br />

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