Curated Events Open studios
31/1 September and 7/8 September
Open Studios is at the very heart of the Coastal Currents Arts Festival, an opportunity to see local artists and makers in the places and spaces where they live and work, either in their home or studio.
We have an incredible pool of creative talent that lives and works in 1066 Country.
The following posts contain community listings that are not funded or organised by Coastal Currents. We cannot be held responsible for accident or injury at events and activities organised by external individuals and groups during Coastal Currents.
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Taking inspiration from her Sussex surroundings, Lorraine experiments with home dug, iron-rich clay and traditional stoneware to create texture and patina on ceramic forms, slips, and glazes. Her latest work ranges from sizeable stone-like moon jars and chargers to smaller functional pieces.
Visit my workshop, to see stitched, multimedia art. Handmade clothes from vintage fabrics, cushions, bags, bunting and haberdashery. Plus vintage treasure treasure.
I use my immediate surroundings and my imagination to create images for paintings, lino prints and fabric collages.
Coastal Paintings, Calendar and Greeting Cards inspired by the huts & hounds of Hastings, Fairlight and Rye Harbour.
An immersive exhibit of multimedia work by Hastings artist Mel McCleary, including paintings, textiles and sound, showing the story of her coastguard ancestors in 19th century Hastings and Winchelsea. Original paintings and greetings cards for sale.
Painter Noel and Photographer Peter showing and selling their original paintings and photography. Peter likes to photograph images that others may overlook; photographing local landscapes and portraits. Noel’s work is very emotive; painting from his past work experience and his mental health.
Acrylic paintings, prints and cards inspired by the weather and the sea of the East Sussex coastline. Wide range of sizes from 14x14cm to 120x100cm.
Visit artists and makers: Rachel Pearson, Ed Boxall, Rebecca E Marshall, Anna Atkinson & Dear Future Films as they showcase books, prints, drawings, jewellery and provide some fun free filmmaking and storytelling sessions!
I make colourful ceramics, both thrown domestic ware and larger hand built vessels. I welcome commissions for the satisfaction of making something for a specific person or place. Previously: sleeping mermaids, a garden totem for a
jazz loving globe trotter and other celebration and commemorative ceramics.
Common Mormon has 8 artists studios, a residency/project space, and Blacklands ceramic studio. The building will be open to visitors over the two weekends of Coastal Currents, with works for sale from studio artists and ceramic members.
Blacklands has 9 artist studios, including a residency/project space. The building will be open over the two weekends of the festival with work for sale by studio artists. If the weather is nice then spend some time in our private courtyard enjoying the sun!
Project Art Works will be open to the public for Coastal Currents with an exhibition and tours of our studio. Project Art Works is a collective of neurodiverse artists and activists. From our studio base in Hastings and in off-site projects, we facilitate personalised creative pathways for artists and makers.
An exhibition of contemporary automata from Cabaret Mechanical Theatre’s collection in our new home the Mechanical Making Space. Come and make your own mechanical portrait to take home & visit our shop with automata making kits, books & prints.
Featuring Debbie Quargnolo of Tala Home and Living’s reconditioned mid century furniture and lampshades, the Radicale Dog’s handmade dog clothing and accessories, work by multi-disciplinary artist Charlotte CHW and woven textiles made by Kirsty McDougall Woven Textiles and ReWeave.
A bit like Baruchello meets Alfred Wallis – paintings, sculpture and digital installation.
Since 2019, Oli has drawn the same thing every day: A bar of soap on a soap dish. Over the last 1500-ish days, he has recorded the minute day to day changes as the soaps have got smaller until all gone. Then he begins with a different soap, on a different soap dish and so on.
The DEPO is a creative hub for those interested in wasting less, hosting popups and workshops with a sustainable theme. MAKU UK are on a mission to make useful, beautiful things from leather industry discards, with limited edition products, handmade from sheepskin and leather offcuts, available to purchase.
Linocuts, woodcuts, etchings, sketches, cards, ceramics, prints and portraits of people and animals by commission. Workshops on both Sundays (12noon till 4pm) Watercolour on the 1 September and Linocut/Reduction on 8 September,
Call to book asap as limited spaces.
Visit five artists at our loft space off the Queens Road. Annie Lawson, Elaine Mullings, Cath Tajima-Powell, Mary Hooper, Chris Embury. Textiles, Prints, Ceramics, Sculpture and Jewellery.
The Two Ians have been artists-in-residence at St Andrew’s Mews since last summer. They curated the ‘dramatic and thought-provoking’ iFound exhibition in the Upstairs Gallery there. The two artists continue to explore work made from found, repurposed and reclaimed materials.
Featuring 3 very different artists; Chris Milton, Danny Mooney and Tobit Roche. Artworks vary from highly detailed landscapes to expressive and colourful works within various degrees of abstraction.
A return to digital technology for CC2024. “The Art Market” Works created and inspired by technology. ‘For the love of cats’ and other stories. Prints, drawings and mixed media.
The Beacon is a family home and business hidden on the West Hill, with an eatery and a licensed bar, large, secluded gardens, and a sizeable allotment (fondly known as the Wilderness)… all just a short walk from Hastings Old Town.
Steve Betts – Working in 2D and 3D as a marine artist with a passion for boats and the sea. Having developed a unique and individual style, exploring seascapes through narrative, storytelling, man’s preservation against the elements, the shifting of time and tides.
Working with handmade charcoal and also pencil and pastel, Dominic has a passion for wildlife, wild landscapes and seascapes. He is inspired by the variety of marks that can be made with nothing more than a piece of burnt wood.
Paintings, drawings and prints of exploded architecture and landscape, inspired by visits to nuclear test sites and intentional communities. Plus bespoke architectural portrait service.
Bob and Claire welcome you to our studio: New creations and old favourites; The Doors Building returns; textile works; films in the Underground Cinema; conversation and fun. Level access via All Saints St.
Paintings, drawings, prints and cards by Claire Fletcher, collages, assemblages, prints and cards by Peter Quinnell.
I’m a painter, mostly in oils on canvas, creating loose, textured still lifes and landscapes. I often work in watercolour and ink to capture French village streets and café culture.
Tempo Studio is a joint space for husband and wife duo to create pieces of art predominantly out of sheet metal. They work together as steel fabricators and have always enjoyed making art in their spare time.
I find objects, often detritus of man, or botanical objects from the forest. The passage of time has revealed a new narrative.
Works from guest artists will also be on show! Nestled in the Bohemian Creative Quarter, you can incorporate us into a promising route of the area.
Enter black gate, up stairs on your left, press Art by BeaP buzzer, door at top of stairs (2nd floor). Breaking the White with multi-media, Acrylics and Oils. Bev Preston brings 3D to 2D paintings, conveyed in her lessons and workshops too.
The Mudworks is a ceramics studio on London Road run by Isabella Campi and Chantelle Duncan. They produce handmade small batch functional homeware and occasionally transform the studio into a gallery for sales throughout the year.
The House of Curiosities: 5 artists with a diverse mix of artistic practice. Mark Bean, painter, 3d printed sculpture. Hilary Best, mixed media artist. Zander Clayton, illustrator. Helen Bryant, painter. Patrick Bean, laser printed art.
Zoom Arts provides spaces for members to exhibit their work, either solo or as a collaboration; enabling member artists to benefit from experience whilst presenting an informal, approachable gateway for the public to access and engage with the visual arts.
Resurrection, The message of the Mask. S.Mutt. What would have become of the bits that you see if they had not come together to make me? All the bits that you see would have been buried deep and appear in our dreams when we’re asleep.
Collaged and printed stoneware ceramic wall pieces and ridged and rugged sculpture and vessels. Combinations of clay, metal, tideline findings and salvaged scrap, with an emphasis on rust.
Mixed Media Textiles using reclaimed materials such as vintage cloth and paper, shoreline fibres and metal fragments, to create low relief wall hung pieces. Aspects of the local environment are integral to the work.
Painting in the still life genre, often placing domestic objects in a landscape. Paintings, Prints and Cards available. Level access to ground floor studio.
The Weekend Space in collaboration with artist Claudia De Grandi invites you see a selection of her latest works. Also on display will be a variety of affordable painting, photographs, small prints and hand-made jewellery from a selection of artists – local and
non-local.
Work in Progress exploring photography, found objects and the folk/plant lore of the Sussex Countryside.
Soft sculpture, contraptions and mixed media objects exploring themes of Women’s issues, medicine and religious practices through the medium of textiles, clothing and related objects.
Duo exhibition of Hastings based artists Colden Drystone and Bruce Ingram. Both artists share an energetic and playful approach to painting, appropriating found materials alongside rich painted surfaces such as concrete, clay, plaster and collage.
Liz Emtage has been designing and creating translucent porcelain lighting, tiles and pieces for the home for more than 20 years. Designer Erica Smith will also have a selection of her jewellery and calligraphy on show.
Immerse yourself in the exhilaration of crashing waves and choose from a wide range of paintings, prints and cards to give your wall a sea view. The Muse is an established studio, a stone’s throw from the beach with several artists nearby.
A studio space shared by Khadija Khan, Louisa Bryan, Caf Fean, Morokoth Fournier, Ornagh, Caroline Sell and Erica Smith. Works on display will include paintings, ceramics, calligraphy and jewellery. Guest artist Catherine Farr will also be exhibiting.
Nick and Adrienne are both inspired by nature and the wild garden in which their studios are constructed. Trees, plants, water-logged landscapes and more are evoked in their work through their very different yet complementary ways of working.
The Lawn is an enclosed communal garden that is one of my favourite places to paint. I will have my mobile work area set up so that visitors can feel the “en plein air” experience. Expect to see watercolours with a twist.
Discovering a collection of botanical watercolour paintings made whilst living in Nigeria over 50 years ago, local artist Prue Theobalds exhibits these works in collaboration with local artist and grandson Caner Mutu to create a unique experience of paintings and photographs exploring plant life, place and people.
Printmaker specialising in bird cartoons and other animals. Mixed media paintings and sculptures. Stitched and stenciled pictures. Jewellery and cards.
Four professional artists, all members of the Haser – Bizony – Ballon family, come together to show their work, exhibiting a mixture of materials and media.
Highland Garden Studio, Front Garden Basement Flat, 4 Highland Gardens, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0HT markwalterartist.com @theartistmarkwalter @busejo @MarkWalterArt Mark Walter is an abstract painter; his textural paintings are made by applying and removing layers …
Three local artists exhibiting contemporary painting & photography in a wonderful landscaped garden with probably the best view in St Leonards.
Icon writing is a practice on especially made wooden boards prepared with gesso; the image is drawn from the ancient prototypes of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Picnic Tables will be showing and selling photographic works from its residents, Nick Ballon, Alma Haser, Dawn Parsonage, Joe Charrington, and artists that have helped us along the way.
Oil pigments from the environment are transformed into imagery. An exploration of the inter-relationships of the sea and the cliffs shaped by it. A dynamic process highlighted by the ongoing landslips of West Hill, St Leonards on Sea.
Grounded in Clay is a curated ceramics exhibition that captures the essence of our natural world using clay and materials found in
the making process.
The Beach Hut, 95 West of Haven, Cinque Port Way, West St Leonards, TN38 0AJ maggie@blackbird-london.com blackbirdjewellery.com @blackbirdlondon @blackbirdjewellery 07568 572076 Blackbird Jewellery designs and makes recycled silver, gold vermeil, brass and bronze jewellery and collectables …
Keith Waller’s pictures dance within dreamscapes, the unseen meet subconscious whispers. In landscapes people dance a graphic journey into the abstract mind.
Meet the artists at our creative community hub, where resident artists will be showing their work in this amazing converted space, along with outdoor sculptures and a restored 1960s vintage train carriage café on site.
Come and join us at Ibex Art Studios to see the wonderful, creative ceramics by Eddie Knevett and Mokshaghandi Van der Plas. Large, colourful abstract paintings by Sarah Evans.
Colour is the subject matter for Geraldine’s paintings, prints and ceramics.
