Partners in Stitch
Tricia Neve and June Barnes join forces to present another collection of innovative, provocative and stimulating textile creations.
Penny’s passion for, and long-time involvement with, the local shoreline provides a starting point for many of her watercolour and pastel paintings.
This collection of work aims to explore and capture the ever-changing moods and cycles of the seasons, reflecting changing light, colour and events.
” Tilt ” refers to the angle of the earth which gives us seasonal change. (more…)
Dates for your diary….
Sat 25 / 26 Sep. Many artists, including lots of Forum members, open their studios to the public. This is the last week-end for Open Studios
Sat 25 Sep. The Warrior Squares in ‘Venuu’, 10 George street @:9 -1. Cutting edge sort of music. See below under Music.
Sun 26 Sep. Forum member, Jenny Jane, sings jazz in the “Jenny Lind” pub, High St at 4.30 .
Fri 1 Oct. Private View for Catherine Litton in AF1 and David Drey in AF 2.
Stop Press…
*** RE- cycling exhibition . 13 – 26 Jan 2011. The Forum is to open its 2011 season with an exhibition in both galleries for a fortnight to highlight Art and re-cycled materials. It is hoped to spread the costs amongst a number of artists, which should result in a low entry fee in double figures. Several artists have already expressed enthusiasm and interest. If you want to be involved, please email us or call in. Email : info@hastingsartsforum.co.uk and address your email “For attention of Annie Rae”
***Brighton Film Fringe. “Invisible”. The Forum is delighted to be hosting fringe events connected with the Brighton Photo Biennal 2010, which Andy Moran will curate in AF2, 28 Oct – 10 Nov. Three photographers will exhibit – Fiona Mersh, Sam Margerison & Quinn Collins, who come together under the concept of invisibility.
This will be followed by another group photo exhibition in AF1 from 11- 17 Nov, curated by Mary Morris. This exhibition forms part of a wider exhition in St Leonards. See also www.on-the-map.org.uk.
‘Sid’ Memorial. We have had many enquiries about a memorial for Sid. Please let us have suggestions about a suitable form, such a memorial might take. Suggestions, so far, are :–
An annual competition with a prize for the ‘best’ entry.
A re-creation of one of Sid’s mosaics on the footpath opposite the Forum. This could be extended, as funds become available, to create a series of mosaics linked by a continuous ribbon of 6-inch ceramic (or other suitable material ) tiles carrying ‘Sid’ icons .
***The Azur is putting on a Hallowe’en disco on Sat 30 Oct and intends to donate 10% of ticket sales to a ‘Sid’ memorial fund. Entertainment will start at 4 – 6pm with a ‘trick or treat’ for children at £5.
The disco will be in two parts. A disco and buffet supper at £20 per ticket will start at 7 pm – very late. For those who wish to attend the disco only, tickets are £10 from 8 pm – very late,
Affordable Studios. Wendy Oxlade has asked us to publicise a project she is working on. This is a survey to discover the extent of support for a project to raise funds for buying premises to convert to studios. Wendy hopes that this should alleviate the current shortage of studios and workshops in Hastings and St Leonards. A copy of Wendy’s survey is held in the Forum.
Showing Now…
David Reeve in AF1, 16 – 28 Sep.
Artist Statement. In this exhibition, David continues to explore urban and seascapes of Hastings Old town and the Stade by the process of oil painting. It is a place which seems to stay the same, but is constantly rejuvenated by embracing change. Interest in colour and form is a continuing feature in his work and in this series of semi-abstract paintings.
Catherine Litton in AF2, 23 Sep – 5 Oct
Catherine Litton has lived her whole life on the coast and feels a deep connection to the sea and the landscape.
Whilst not taking any direct inspiration from the landscape itself, the artist acknowledges that it is the space and the light of her immediate environment that allows her mind to free and detach itself from the busy pressured experience of life, and paint without hindrance.
This allows each painting to exist outside of ‘normal’ experience and become it’s own intimate landscape.
Every moment, every thought comes with colour and movement. I don’t paint what I see. I paint what I feel, what I experience.
For me my work is not about what I have painted, but rather what happens while I paint. I listen to the paintings and allow the work to find it’s own way. It’s instinctive.
The colours and the movement of the medium capture and narrate that which cannot be depicted in words. Thus allowing the work to be viewed and understood on an individual and emotional level.
Forum at the Azur (AF3). Paintings by Jeremy Ebdon, Brij Sharma and Chris Thomas.
Coming up…
David Drey in AF1. 30 Sep – 12 Oct
What is a Subject?” Some paintings by David Drey.
“……The question “What is a Subject?” really is a very alive one for me while making the paintings; what can be a subject, what is the subject?…and so on.
My aim beyond this process is to arrive at a series of images that work on the senses in a visceral way, which are surprising and unexpected, as unexpected as something seen immediately and with complete freshness.”
“Washed up” Penny Hobson in AF2. 7 – 12 Oct.
Washed Up – Artist statement
Ever a collector – from triangular cheese labels and pencil sharpeners in my youth, to snow globes and Devon Blue jugs today – it is to the beach I have turned since returning to Bexhill fifteen years ago.
The ever-changing sea and the beach give me solace and beachcombing has become an obsession: stones, driftwood – but most particularly the strange and wonderful coloured objects cast up onto the beach. These I organise, order, notate – in a world in which I otherwise have no control
The flotsam and jetsam is lessening its hold – but I cannot imagine leaving a beached cigarette lighter to its fate, or that abandoned toy – they simply have to come and join my growing collection…
‘Flare’ : Penny Nice in AF 1, 14 – 26 Oct.
Artist Statement: Penny Nice : ‘Flare’
My passion for, and long time involvement with, the local shoreline often provides starting points for watercolour and pastel paintings.
This exhibition has been an opportunity to combine coastal influences with a celebration of the life of my Uncle, Ronald Ewens, who was a lighthouse keeper for Trinity House for thirty five years and served on many of the lighthouses around the British coast, including Dungeness and Beachy Head. Safety at sea, the local work of the RNLI, the unique nature of the lighthouse keeper’s job, together with the variability of weather conditions is explored through the work.
This is my second exhibition at the Arts Forum, following a joint exhibition last Summer.
Partners in Stitch ( June Barnes and Tricia Neve ) in AF2 14 – 26 Oct
Robin Holtom in AF1. 28 Nov - 10 Nov. Paintings.
“Invisible” in AF2. Hastings Photo Fringe event, Fiona Mersh, Sam Margerison and Quinn Collins. Curated by Andy Moran
Members’ Announcements…
Geraldine Wheeler reminds you that her studio is open this week-end at
12 Stanhope Place.
Anna Keiller – INTRODUCTION TO PLASTER CASTING:
This is a one day workshop where we will make some life castings of hands and feet, and also cast interesting surfaces, patterns or plants. These casts can be used when making ceramic sculptures in the future, or they can be a work of art in their own right.
The workshop takes place on Sunday 26th Sept at 10am-3pm at my studios in Dudley Road in Hastings. Cost for the day, including all materials, a lovely lunch, tea, coffee and cake is £35
Please wear suitable clothes as plaster is messy. For more information, please email me
or contact me via my website www.annakeiller.co.uk
Danny Mooney posts. Coastal Currents is on again, and my studio is open for the last 2 weekends in September and it’d be lovely if any or all of you could come along. Basement studio,
McCarron’s of Mercatoria
Lin Gregory posts
3rd – 30th September. Mon – Sat, 10am – 6pm, Sun 10am – 5pm.
SHOTS FROM THE HIP – HASTINGS INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHERS:
ALLISON SAN DIEGO, ANDY WILSON, ANNETTE BARTON, BARRY REID, DEBBIE GREGORY, IAN GRANT, LIN GREGORY, RICHARD FISHER, SIMON HOOKEY, SIN BOZKURT, STEWART BRYANT, SUE REID.
The Bullet Cafe, Robertson Street Hastings.
Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton, now an experienced artists’ and hairdresser’s model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available. Tel: 01273 275955.
Anna Casson posts : I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103
FILM…
St Leonards Film Society.
The schedule for September and October is below. See also
http://www.stleonardsfilmsoc.co.uk/programme.htm
All films listed below are in AF1 at 7 for 7.45.
Thu 30 Sep “Four Lions”
This highly anticipated first feature from controversial British satirist Chris Morris (BRASSEYE, NATHAN BARLEY, THE DAY TODAY) follows four British Jihadi men and their bungled attempts at becoming terrorists. Like a new style of Ealing comedy (think Kind Hearts and Coronets) this film is provocative, moving and very, very funny.
Thu 14 Oct. “Good Hair”
When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head! Director Jeff Stilson’s camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture.
Thu 28 Oct. “From a Whisper”
Music…
Nick Weekes posts. Come hear / see the “Warrior Squares” . Mozart it isn’t, nor Stravinsky nor Ades , but they might have approved. It is ‘cutting edge’ sort of stuff in the realm of electronic music. The concert is on tonight, Sat 25 at “Venuu” , 10,George Street 9pm – 1 am. Definitely something to experience.
‘Washed up’
Ever a collector – from triangular cheese labels and pencil sharpeners in my youth, to snow globes and Devon Blue jugs today – it is to the beach I have turned since returning to Bexhill fifteen years ago.
The ever-changing sea and the beach give me solace and beachcombing has become an obsession: stones, driftwood – but most particularly the strange and wonderful coloured objects cast up onto the beach. These I organise, order, notate – in a world in which I otherwise have no control (more…)
Forum members and close friends of Sid Beynon came together to make and decorate his coffin, led by Billy Fail. Decorated by Trish Kilczewski, Sean Burns, Peter Levy, John Plummer.
Sid Beynon’s funeral service and celebration of his life took place at St Ethelburga’s Church on Wednesday 15 September on a beautiful sunny early Autumn morning. The church was packed with more than 200 mourners with standing room only at the back. Family. friends, Forum colleagues, mates and schoolfriends were all there. Sid was an integral part of the St Leonards and Hastings scene.
Spontaneous gestures said everything about the esteem in which we all held Sid. Erica Smith , with Naomi, Sid’s daughter, and Jacqueline, Sid’s sister, designed a beautiful and fitting “Order of Service”. There was a coffin decorated and made by friends, led by Billy Fail. On the beach below the Forum was a mosaic of Sid’s name, placed by another group of friends. These three generous spontaneous actions said it all.
After the service and committal at the crematorium, the family welcomed everyone to the Azur.
Dates for your diary….
Sat 18/19 Sep. This week-end and next. — and other times as in the Coastal Currents brochure. Many artists, including lots of Forum members, open their studios to the public.
Sat 18 Sep. 10 – 5. Battle Contemporary Fine Art Fair opens. Powdermills, Battle
Sat 18/19 Sep. Shakespeare in the Park. “As you like it”. St Leonards Gardens. 1 pm and 6 pm
Sun 19 Sep. 7 for 7.45 . SLOS Film Soc. “Isolation”. ***Q and A live with Stuart Griffiths ex- soldier from SLOS.***
Wed 22 Sep. Gallery talk in F-ish by Project Artworks Team.
Stop Press…
‘Sid’ Memorial. We have had many enquiries about a memorial for Sid. Please let us have suggestions about a suitable form, such a memorial might take. Suggestions, so far, are :–
An annual competition with a prize for the ‘best’ entry.
A re-creation of one of Sid’s mosaics on the footpath opposite the Forum. This could be extended, as funds become available, to create a series of mosaics linked by a continuous ribbon of 6-inch ceramic (or other suitable material ) tiles carrying ‘Sid’ icons .
***The Azur is putting on a Hallowe’en fancy dress disco on Sat 30 Oct and intends to donate 10% of ticket sales to a ‘Sid’ memorial fund. Entertainment will start at 4 – 6pm with a ‘trick or treat’ for children at £5.
The disco will be in two parts. A disco and buffet supper at £20 per ticket will start at 7 pm – very late. For those who wish to attend the disco only, tickets are £10 from 8 pm – very late,
SLOS Film Soc Sun 19 Sep. “Isolation”. ** Q&A with Stuart Griffiths**
The documentary follows local St Leonards-based photographer and ex-soldier, Stuart Griffiths, as he travels across England uncovering the personal and controversial stories behind the military statistics that 25% of British ex-soldiers sleep rough when they return home.
Showing Now…
George Robertson in AF2 , 9 – 22 Sep. A Shetland Islander in Sussex. My subjects are often taken from local East Sussex scenery, and can incorporate the more abstract elements to be found both in nature and everyday life.
Forum at the Azur (AF3). Photography by Clive Gross commenting on the regeneration ? / degeneration ? of our urban centres.
David Reeve in AF1, 16 – 28 Sep.
Artist Statement. In this exhibition, David continues to explore urban and seascapes of Hastings Old town and the Stade by the process of oil painting. It is a place which seems to stay the same, but is constantly rejuvenated by embracing change. Interest in colour and form is a continuing feature in his work and in this series of semi-abstract paintings.
Coming up…
Catherine Litton in AF2, 23 Sep – 5 O
© Catherine Litton..”Untitled”
Catherine Litton has lived her whole life on the coast and feels a deep connection to the sea and the landscape.
Whilst not taking any direct inspiration from the landscape itself, the artist acknowledges that it is the space and the light of her immediate
environment that allows her mind to free and detach itself from the busy pressured experience of life, and paint without hindrance.
This allows each painting to exist outside of ‘normal’ experience and become it’s own intimate landscape.
Every moment, every thought comes with colour and movement. I don’t paint what I see. I paint what I feel, what I experience.
For me my work is not about what I have painted, but rather what happens while I paint. I listen to the paintings and allow the work to find it’s own way. It’s instinctive.
The colours and the movement of the medium capture and narrate that which cannot be depicted in words. Thus allowing the work to be viewed and understood on an individual and emotional level.
David Drey in AF1. 30 Sep – 12 Oct
© David Drey. “Frozen Trunk”. 120 x 105cm. Oil on canvas.
“What is a Subject?” Some paintings by David Drey.
“……The question “What is a Subject?” really is a very alive one for me while making the paintings; what can be a subject, what is the subject?…and so on.
My aim beyond this process is to arrive at a series of images that work on the senses in a visceral way, which are surprising and unexpected, as unexpected as something seen immediately and with complete freshness.”
Members’ Announcements…
Danny Mooney posts. Coastal Currents is on again, and my studio is open for the last 2 weekends in September and it’d be lovely if any or all of you could come along. Basement studio,
McCarron’s of Mercatoria
PROJECT ARTWORKS. “Parallel Worlds” F-ish Gallery. Runs Thursdays – Sundays. Gallery talk 22 Sep.
Felipe Hewitt posts : I am a 58 year-old former life guard in Bermuda and in Brighton, now an experienced artists’ and hairdresser’s model. I am a Charles Laughton lookalike. References available. Tel: 01273 275955.
Anna Casson posts : I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 7791794103
Lin Gregory posts
3rd – 30th September. Mon – Sat, 10am – 6pm, Sun 10am – 5pm.
SHOTS FROM THE HIP – HASTINGS INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHERS:
ALLISON SAN DIEGO, ANDY WILSON, ANNETTE BARTON, BARRY REID, DEBBIE GREGORY, IAN GRANT, LIN GREGORY, RICHARD FISHER, SIMON HOOKEY, SIN BOZKURT, STEWART BRYANT, SUE REID.
The Bullet Cafe, Robertson Street Hastings.
Martin Hutchings posts
“Beyond the Decorative” 10 – 26 September. An exhibition of paintings by Martin Hutchings at Slaven Housse, 25, High street, Rye,
FILM…
St Leonards Film Society.
The schedule for September is below. See also
http://www.stleonardsfilmsoc.co.uk/programme.htm
All films listed below are in AF1 at 7 for 7.45.
Sun 19 Sep. “Isolation”. *** Q and A live with Stuart Griffiths***
The documentary follows local St Leonards-based photographer and ex-soldier, Stuart Griffiths, as he travels England uncovering the personal and controversial stories behind the military statistics that 25% of British ex-soldiers sleep rough when they return home.
Described by Ken Loach as “an important document of the experiences of ex-soldiers told through the eyes of someone who knows,” Isolation is an impressionistic portrait of the emotional and physical aftermath of war.
Many of our members in Hastings and St Leonards have their studios open both this weekend and next as part of the Coastal Currents festival.
11:00 – 6:00, 18th & 19th, 25th & 26th September
This is a great opportunity to get to talk to the artists and see truly up to the minute art and design.
For more information, CLICK HERE
Catherine Litton has lived her whole life on the coast and feels a deep connection to the sea and the landscape. Whilst not taking any direct inspiration from the landscape itself, the artist acknowledges that it is the space and the light of her immediate environment that allows her mind to free and detach itself from the busy pressured experience of life, and paint without hindrance. This allows each painting to exist outside of ‘normal’ experience and become it’s own intimate landscape. (more…)
“What is a Subject?” Some paintings by David Drey.
The question “What is a Subject?” really is a very alive one for me while making the paintings; what can be a subject, what is the subject, and so on?
My aim beyond this process is to arrive at a series of images that work on the senses in a visceral way, which are surprising and unexpected, as unexpected as something seen immediately and with complete freshness.
Cabaret evening at the Beacon: Krysia Mansfield and friends perform Art-Song
this Saturday, 18th September, 7.30pm with profits going to ‘A Walk of Art’.
Alongside her singing Krysia is also a model/life model who has, as you can
imagine, much time on her hands during poses to compose songs; the cabaret
contains many of these musings.
To book please email or phone: judy@beaconhastings.com or 01424 431305 (leave a
message). For more details see www.beaconhastings.com. Tickets are £12, to
include a light buffet. BYO wine.
The family of Sid Beynon announce that the funeral service for Sid will take place at St. Ethelburga’s Church, Bulverhythe (corner of Bexhill and Filsham Road) Wednesday 15th September at 11:30 am. Parking will be available at the former infants’ school opposite.
The cortege will depart from the Forum at 11:10, arriving at St Ethelburga’s at 11:30. Family flowers only, but a donation in lieu may be made to the Forum to set up a memorial fund.
Afterwards, it is hoped you will gather at the Azur Marina Pavilion. The family will attend the committal at Hastings Crematorium immediately after the service, but add that they will welcome anyone else who wishes to attend.
