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In this latest exhibition by O'Hanlon a series of ink drawings, oil boards and watercolours enable a direct and immediate response to natre and the personal vision this evokes.
Liz Steadman is joined b John Davies, George Mundell, John Plummer and Pippa Burley, each usinf imagination and informed memory to explore the world around them usin a variety of media including print, paint, photography and cement fondu.
The second week of the forum's annual members show, I - R continues to inspire and delight.
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With its theme of 'journeys' this year's Shot By The Sea digital film festival continues to make a big impact with an invigorating programme of feature films, shorts, club nights and an outdoor big beach screening finale.
A direct result of an ever growing membership, S - Z offers the final chance to see this season's work by Arts Forum members.
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A special Arts Forum meeting for members and arts organisations to meet the consultants currently responsible for planning the development of the Jerwood Foundation Gallery in Hastings Old Town
Serendipity 'the happy mistake'' intrigues this highly innovative artist: conversed patterns and deliberate marking produce an outcome of suprising depth where laced grids of thoughts, like a cog in a machine, occupy static space in a moving world of abstract landscape and architectual forms.
Anita Pain's work maps the geography of the half-noted and partially remembered, events that will become treasures and regrets in the negotiated reality of our future and past and provoking the viewer to self reflection. Exhibiting alongside Anita, Sarah Yates'
Martin Hutchis' paintings contain an energy and life force inherent in their realisation and existence which are to be viewed as much as experienced. Showing alongside is aspiring young photographer Irene Renee Bakundukize, awared a Prince's Trust grant in 2007 whose
Using traditional and contemporary themes, this new show by two local artists and tutors takes inspiration from the human form, the love of local countryside and its ever changing sea and sky.
The Open Studios season is back - and this year it's bigger and better than ever before. Heralding the September start of the Coastal Currents Arts Festival , this 'taster' exhibition gives a preview of the many artists participating in this year's Open Studios programme - an extraordinary display
This is Wilson's first solo show in Hastings since 2003. Inspired by Morandi through to Ozenfant, still life has become a great source of subject matter for him. The arraying of simple everyday objects to create a composition is an important part of his practice creating chiaroscuro
Curated by Peter Stonham, this exhibition portrays a variety of local characters through the photographic, drawn and painted medium revealing the characters and their stories with all the diversity and richness that Hastings and St Leonards has to offer.
A seasoned painter, John Lipsham work draws on a wide range of sources - imaginary and real. He disseminates his compositions into a mixture of abstract and figurative works, of unpainted ground next to impasto, sharing out weight of colour and
Miller's tender renderings in charcoal and explosive observations in paint and mixed media are produced through a meditative practice working from life. Close observational drawings are created within a practice of innovative mark-making which creates a diverse portfolio from the figurative to the abstract.
The resounding success of this festival - now in its 3rd year - is complemented in 2008 by a visual feast at The Arts Forum. Likened to the Royal Show, Olympia and Earls Court Exhibitions, the festival draws over 30,000 visitors each
Thalia Murray's work begins with the classical figure dissecting the image to leave only a structure consumed by its surroundngs. From the mundane to the 'big picture' the oils on canvas depict a 'to-do list' combining the commitments, dreams, aspirations and reality of life today.
Art From Hastings Around The World
Twin Town is a global art experiment. Led by The Arts Forum in Hastings, England, it seeks to bring together artists from around the globe to celebrate a shared love of one thing.... their home town of Hastings.
