I chose to make these paintings of Beachy Head light, Belle Tout and Birling Gap in order to convey the panorama of the Sussex Coast, exploring its underlying structure, contours and unique history.
I have experimented with wide-angle views and alternated between representational and abstract modes, suggesting the range of different viewing strategies and perceptions that occur to me when I am painting on the Sussex coast.
The Arc, Jewry Street, Winchester SO23 8SB
Friday 4 April – Wednesday 16 July 2025
9.30am – 5pm Monday- Saturday
11am – 5pm Sunday
Tickets: £5 Adults, £3.50 Concessions, £2.50 Under 16’s
The South Downs Way is a 100-mile-long distance walk over the spectacular and ancient South Downs, from Winchester to Eastbourne. This exhibition represents another chapter in the ongoing engagements with the landscape as 33 contemporary artists articulate the experience of walking the Way through the lens of their creative practices.
The Downs are complex and multi-faceted with ever-changing views and close encounters with fauna and flora, as well as intriguing discoveries of unusual buildings or ruins and signs of historic and contemporary human activity. Responding to specific locations along the route, leading artists from across the region have been invited to create new works inspired by this dramatic landscape on our doorstep.
The display brings together exceptional paintings and printmaking, sculpture, land art, textiles and more.
In partnership with The Ramblers Association.
Beachy Head Lighth II, Sussex
Acrylic on handmade cotton rag paper
30cm x 42cm
Birling Gap I, Sussex
Acrylic on handmade cotton rag paper
30cm x 42cm
Belle Tout IV, Sussex
Acrylic on handmade cotton rag paper
30cm x 42cm
