Coastal Currents

Open Studios

Curated Events Open studios

MRKL

I paint colourful acrylic paintings on such themes as technology and our changing social and physical world with a gratuitous splash of satirical and dark humour.

Pippa Ryan | Assemblage Artist

Pippa’s three-dimensional assemblage artworks celebrate everyday objects and the memories they hold.

Robin Easterby

Inspired by The Natural World Robin paints with a focus on landscape – from ancient woodlands, dramatic seascapes to bright maximalist florals.

BLAST Art Gallery

Markus & Tessa Thonett are an artist couple with very different work. He makes original card-cuts of local scenery, while she paints portraits & her imaginary ‘Grace n’ Grit’ series.

The Strand Quay Gallery

Artists showing paintings, prints, cards, photographs and jewellery. Delphine Pope. Gill Copeland. @joannagoodwin.art. Claire Polley. Helen Morgan-Jones. Pat Barefoot. Elaine Baker. Mike Stott. Geri@figtreeartrye.

Nicola Jones

2026 official JITG artist Nicola Jones presents a playful and exhibition of hand painted plywood cutouts, with prints and original artworks for sale.

Greenhouse Open Studios

Paintings, film, stories, prints, jewellery, mobiles, DnD, and tarot…

Dominic Zwemmer

Working with handmade charcoal, and also pastel and pencil, Dominic has a passion for wild places, wild seas and wild life.

Woman Stanley, Women

Kathleen Foley’s artistic practice is rooted in intuition and emotional expression, with a strong focus on themes related to the identity of ‘Woman.’

Artists’ Shedidency

Art among the plots! Discover the many talented artists of Marina Allotments & explore the artworks in and around this magical site

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

Turn handles, push buttons & see mechanical marvels from CMT’s legendary collection.

Ella Guru

Local figurative painter Ella Guru exhibits new affordable paintings and prints.

HVA Staff Showcase

Many HVA staff members are artists so we wanted to celebrate their wide-ranging work during Coastal Currents.

Geraldine Swayne & Jennifer Binnie

A rare opportunity to visit this extraordinary subterranean palace…

Hastings Atelier

Hastings Atelier is a small, independent art school founded by artist Alex Tzavaras.

artlab

Visit 5 artlab artists at our base in Priory Meadow: Kim De Paolis, Stephanie Funnell, Jeni Johnson, Amanda Knight and Marigold Plunkett.

Emma Law Coastal Alchemy

Coastal Alchemy: mosaics, paintings, sketchbooks and designs where patterns shift, forms emerge and curious worlds quietly reveal themselves.

Sally Cole. New Studio 45

I would love to show you my new studio, filled with my paintings, drawings and prints for sale. My work originates from Wales, New Zealand, and the South Coast.

Anna Malni

Lino-cuts, woodcuts, etchings, sketches, cards, ceramics, prints and portraits of people and animals by commission.

Katja Seaton Ceramics

Katja creates intricate ceramic works that honour lives, stories and experiences often overlooked; combining delicacy, detail and narrative to produce pieces that invite closer attention.

Katherine Reekie & Jane Higginbottom

Katherine Reekie is a figurative surrealist with a interest in cultural and Jane Higginbottom is a sculptor…

Maku

The DEPO is a creative hub for those interested in wasting less, hosting events with a sustainable theme

Oli Kellett Studio

Oli will present work from his ongoing series ‘Soap Drawings’.

Art in The Green House

Working between assemblage and collage lostnorfound is building an imaginary visual story.

Bob & Claire Humm

We welcome everyone to a studio of fun and surprises, where you can see
textile works, costumes…

The Trouble With Women

Women photographed in their own homes across Hastings.

Black Winkle Studio

Claire Fletcher and Peter Quinnell: original art, illustrations, prints, sketches, collages, watercolours, drawings, badges and cards.

Pips Community Gallery

A homely community-run gallery. Celebrating local creatives in the area.

Prospect, Pett Level

For the first time, ceramic artist Tania Fallon opens her home and studio, showcasing her work alongside a selection of local artists, set against spectacular views across the countryside to the sea.

Samuel Peacock Studio

Samuel Peacock is an artist who works on steel, creating landscape paintings with oils and coffee. His work is shown in galleries across the globe including Novotel Canary Wharf.

Langton House Studios

Darren Buss is a photographer with 18 years of experience capturing people and the natural world. Ruby Sams is a printmaker and illustrator specialising in wood engraving and relief.

Dr Rupert Record (DProf)

We welcome the extraordinary work of Dr Rupert Record (DProf) to our Battle office, temporarily transformed into a gallery space for the occasion.

Beachhut 33

My work is predominantly watercolour and more recently oil and acrylic. The local seascape is forever changing and provides continued challenges in light, colour and subject.

L. C. Larke’s Wunderkammer

Mixed media artworks exploring the mind, the body, the power of suggestion – merging fact and fiction, art and science. Experience the curiosities, the line between the real and the invented.

Geraldine Franklin

Visit multidisciplinary artists showing contemporary art with resplendent colour. Fine art paintings, prints and weavings.

Andrew – Eden Kötting

Andrew and Eden Kötting invite you into their studio of visions, snippets, memories, and collisions.

Hunter/Snelling Garden Studios

Wander down the wild garden to two studios side by side and discover new paintings by Adrienne Hunter and Nick Snelling.

Carly Ralph

Mixed media textiles using reclaimed materials such as vintage cloth and paper, found metal fragments and textile surplus to create low relief wall hung pieces.

Friday Print Group

Arts on Prescription’s Friday Printing Group started off as a lino printing group but is now experimenting with silk screen and gel printing.

Sara Martin and Samantha Guertin

For the first weekend only: discover the delights of Sara Martin’s intensely coloured florals and landscape oils alongside Samantha Guertin’s richly expressive figurative land and seascapes.

Annie Soudain

Annie Soudain uses images in her head or in her immediate surroundings as inspiration for linoprints, paintings, and collages.

BlueShedPett

Blue Shed is a quirky studio a 5 min stroll to the beach at the cliff end of Pett Level, a magical place where clay is used as an art medium to hand-form sculptural vessels, assemblages and 3d still-lives using centuries old techniques.

Project Art Works

Project Art Works opens up its campus across three sites in Hastings for studios and exhibitions.

Lesley Bellenger

Lesley is an artist who loves colour. She creates local scenes as screenprints, collage, watercolour and collagraphs.

Anna Wilson-Patterson

Evocative original oil paintings inspired by cliff top living, featuring huts, hounds and wildflowers. Also available are my books of paintings and a selection of greeting cards.

The Art of Healing

Louise Witham – art exhibit at The High Street Clinic, Hastings Old Town.

Richard Platt/Light & Lead

A tiny tool-shed studio showing kiln-formed leaded-glass panels of sea-shells and fossils, plus larger windows on local themes.

Sam Van Riet: Illustrator and Artist

A posthumous retrospective selection of the artist’s children’s book illustrations, drawings, watercolour artworks and sketchbooks with an accompanying poetic soundtrack presented by her husband Alan Durant.

Jo Vesanen

Jo’s work contrasts urban domesticity with aspects of nature. Her distinctive compositions, mostly in oil, are visions shaped in bold harmonies of colour and line.

Amanda Prouten

Hastings-based designer showing bright, bold paintings, prints, cards and textiles inspired by the natural world.

Blacklands Studios

Step inside working studios and meet artists making across painting, ceramics, photography, mixed media, sculpture, illustration, sound and installation.

Sugar House Studios

Visit 7 artists at our loft space just off the Queens Road. Annie Lawson, Cath Tajima-Powell, Chris Embury, Clare Land, Emma Harding, the Two Ians.

33 West Street

Five artists on four floors: Adaesi Ukairo, Stephanie Fawbert, Rod Morris, Fi Brown and Lorna Crabbe

Anna Pontonutti’s Studio

My work is informed by the weather and sea of the East Sussex Coast.

I Make Lines

Combining repetition, intricacy and scale I intend to create basic frameworks for thought.

Alessandro Raho Paintings

Some paintings at home, by Alessandro Raho.

The House of Curiosities

6 artists in a very curious house: Mark Bean, Zander Clayton, Tom Laine, Helen Bryant, Patrick Bean, Hilderic the Valkyrie.

Judith Rowe Pottery

Decorated Everyday Earthenware Pottery: Cups, Plates, Jugs,Vases etc and Photographic Transfer pieces using images from my travels.

Robin Holtom

Robin is showing a wide range of work including drawings and paintings of Dancers and brightly coloured landscapes.

All that’s solid melts into air

Profound, abrupt and turbulent change feels ever more present; more everyday.

Alex Leadbeater

Hundreds of waves in all moods, shapes and sizes from tiny prints and cards to large paintings on canvas in a studio near the beach.

Fiona Denning

Semi abstract and still life paintings incorporating imagined and remembered landscape.

Raymond McChrystal

Figurative and semi abstract watercolours painted outdoors and exhibited outdoors in the private garden of the Lawn.

Brian Deighton

Oil, acrylic and bleach paintings spanning several decades, bearing witness to politics, climate change and spiritual reflections.

Luiza Machado Studio

The lost object is neither fully relinquished nor frozen intact. Instead, it is transformed, metabolised, worked on.

Dan Percy Photographic Artist

Limited edition and original photographic prints of curated objects which experiment with effect of light. Ground floor access with single step.

Tim E White

Fine Art photographer Tim E White’s studio sits in beautiful gardens with arguably the finest view in St Leonards;

Battle Creatives

An opportunity to discover local talented artists showcasing their incredible work throughout this fabulous building.

DT Studios

DT Studios are exhibiting work by many local artists through a maze of studios in 8, 9 and 10 West Street

silksart studio

Silk painter working with pure Habotai silk and preloved blouses and scarves, Stephen’s work is always of the moment and reflects his connection to the feelings of the day.

Kerry Bennett Studio

Kerry paints nature in watercolour to capture quiet moments of light, movement, and emotion.

Keshara Art

Drawings, paintings, and linocut prints inspired by nature.

Paintings in Ink and Tea

Carne Griffiths is known for his expressive portraiture and wildlife paintings created using inks teas and alcohols, with fountain pen details.

Clare Kersley

Clare is an artist and photographer inspired by nature and the human form and especially interested in the marks we make on the world and on each other.

Medieval House Studio

Victoria Woolfe is an expressive realist artist painting in oils, with a love for florals, wildlife and rural Sussex scenes.

Studio 16

Fiona and Martha welcome you to Studio 16, to see linoprints, tetrapak, mono prints, woodblock and mosaics.

Makers’ House

Open House with resident and visiting artists of all disciplines.

Rozza: Fractured Self

Rozza is a neo-expressionist painter exploring fractured identity and psychological noise through abstract and symbolic mark-making.

The Compound

Two floors of studios featuring a diverse array of artists including painting, ceramics, sculpture and much more.

Amanda Knight

Inspired by nature, stolen from culture, re-worked by head and hand: drawings, paintings and research fragments from the artist’s studio.

B-side Framing

Custom picture framing and art gallery.

Wendy Smith

A collection of vibrant and weathered landscape paintings, with a curiosity for edgeland areas where wild spaces meet the more contained.