Viva Lewes Issue #138 March 2018

ART
ART & ABOUT
In town this month
Liza Mackintosh
Liza Mackintosh is the featured artist
at Chalk Gallery until the 18th of
March. She describes her work as ‘an
open-ended journey into the organic
landscape’ - with the journey being more
important than the destination. The
resultant paintings are visual diaries of
her walks through local landscapes, most
recently Red House Common in North
Chailey. Liza, who works in the studio
with pencil, pastel, bark, charcoal and
carbon paper, says, ‘the paintings are like
a secret knowledge, a new perspective of
the landscape, the more I look at them
the more I see’.
Cliff Crawford
As well as the
exhibition by
Cliff Crawford
at Martyrs’ Gallery
from the 3rd
until the 23rd of
March (see pg
45) there’s also a new writers’ group at
the gallery on the 2nd and 4th Fridays
of the month (March 9th and 23rd).
Writers of fiction or non-fiction can
use the space free of charge for a calm,
quiet, untutored drop-in session inspired
by the current exhibition.
We learn as we go to press that from
March 1st Sarah O’Kane (formerly of
St Anne’s Galleries, and HQ Gallery)
will be showing her circle of artists’
work from Fisher Street Frames.
She’ll be arranging solo exhibitions in a
variety of spaces from spring onwards.
If you are quick, there is a last chance to
check out the Open Art Exhibition at Pelham
House which ends on the 6th of March.
The annual exhibition showcases the work
of more than 60 established and emerging
Sussex-based artists.
Goblet and Pears by Barbara Lovegrove
Birling Gap (detail) by Helen Brown
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