Colonnade House – Creative Hub

    Pier Road Coffee & Art is a space for coffee, cake and perusing local artwork in Littlehampton. In this exhibition the resident artists of the gallery will be paying their second visit to Colonnade House to display a diverse breadth of work, including photography, painting, textiles, illustration and jewellery.   Photographers will include Kevin Hicks, Lucy Harvey, Trevor Fryer, Anthony Plummer and Jacqui Dracup. Paintings will be from Cat McLelland, Geoff Ackroyd, Eleonora Medwell, Joanna Binstead, Nicky Bainbridge…

  Shireen Avis’s journey started 40 years ago when she studied Textile Design and Technology at the Bulawayo College of Applied Art and Design in Zimbabwe. However, as her business brain took over she found herself following a very different path, spending 36 years in various high street retail environments. Upon rediscovering her creative roots though experimenting with various media and techniques, she returned to using boot polish, a medium she favoured as an art student. This creativity was a…

    For the third year running Durrington High School’s outstanding Art & Design Department is very excited to present ‘The Best of the Best III’. The success of the Art & Design department is nationally recognised with year on year 100% pass rate in Fine Art, Graphics, Textiles and 3D studies. The exhibition is a selection of Year 10 and Year 11 GCSE Art & Design work, featuring expressive portraits, canvases, sculpture, textiles and a range of impressive mixed…

  Adam Hodson is an international photographer and photographic technician who has worked in 68 countries. This is an exhibition where photography and art combine, including digital transgressions from watercolours, local images digitised onto large canvas, and an array of international photography.  

  Jess Gill, Rod Browning and Rob Wells are all residents of Hut 43: a shared creative space at East Beach Studios on Worthing’s coastline. They are connected by their passion for creating lighting and furniture through recycling and reusing materials while using nature as their guide.  

  Mysterious Makers is a creative initiative that connects artists with children in West Sussex. The exhibition showcases artwork made within Creative Safe Space sessions, including stop motion animations, textile works and installations. Mysterious Makers is run by Articulate Arts LTD.           

  Jo Maynard primarily uses pencil to create wonderfully realistic pet portraits, but also enjoys drawing and painting wildlife, children, cars and landscapes. She loves experimenting with different mediums, including oil painting, alcohol ink painting, block printing and drawing with pastel pencils, and was recently invited to write an article for the Jackson's Art supplies blog on the different pencils she uses. Last year Jo sold several artworks at Sketch for Survival, a charity auction that raises awareness about wildlife…

  Visual artist Sonia Srebric’s latest project is inspired by historical costumes and fancy dress. Taking photographs of costumes, Sonia reworks them and prints them on Acetate, producing a ghostly vintage negative effect. Based in Worthing, Sonia takes inspiration from the history of interesting people who have lived locally, particularly enjoying visiting the expansive costume collection at Worthing Museum and thinking about the people who would have worn them. She believes that modern images of vintage costumes could easily appear…