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We are so lucky to live on Brighton seafront, in Kemptown village, with the sea in front of us and the delights of Kemptown bookshop, the Open Bakery and TwoFold behind us. I have my studio at home so I can see the sea and sky from my window. It changes all the time it's easy to get wrapped up in it and forget the time ...

I met Steven in 2017 and we moved to Brighton together a year later. It was a real turning point as I gave up my job to learn how to paint. I began with portraiture and now paint people and the sea, so I then had to learn how to paint the sea!

I have learned a lot about painting the sea from the old masters. This is a fabulous piece by American artist Winslow Homer, in a rare London exhibition at the RA. I've recently been to the Turner / Constable at Tate Britain. Turner and Homer are my two sea painting master heroes. I never tire of looking at their work.

We are so lucky to live so close to sealanes 50m pool on the beach. This is lane 2 of our masters group - here we are doing a 60 x 100m on New Year's Eve. Looking forward to our coffees!

Sussex Art Club in Bond Street Brighton is where I go most weeks to practice drawing and painting from life models. I enjoy the company and the exchanges of artistic insight, the sarcasm and wit of organiser Graham, in particular :)

Bettie is one of the models I have enjoyed painting at Sussex Art – this large piece was completed over three weeks in sittings of 3 hours at a time. 

My painting is driven by my connection to swimmers and the sea. The Brighton Swimming Club, infuses my work with camaraderie, resilience, and the joy of interaction & coffee. 

Alli finishing the September 2023 Brighton Pier to Pier Race under the Palace Pier in Brighton

" I love the camaraderie, the anxiety about the waves, huddling in our dry robes afterwards, and just everything about it. "

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  • Lynette Yiadom-Boakye In League with the Night

    Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. This exhibition brings together around 70 works from 2003 to the present day in the most extensive survey of the artist’s career to date.

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  • Artist Open House

    We opened our home to visitors for the first time for Artist Open Houses 2023. It was fabulous! We really enjoyed it and will definitely do it again next year. This is a big thank you to everyone who came along and made it such an enjoyable success - THANK YOU! XX