Stone Sculpture

Chris has over forty years’ experience in stone-carving. His relaxed, encouraging and enthusiastic style make his workshops suitable for all ages.

Paintings & sculpture

I have pratised my art since my art training (1978-1985), seeking to draw from the land and the human figure. I look at the atmosphere (clouds), the geography and the history of the landscape in my surroundings.

Sculpture & Painting

I sculpt from clay which is then glazed and stone-fired. I have recently started painting, focusing on colour, shape and movement.

Drawings

The house, sculpture garden and gallery are open each Sunday at 10am and 50 minute guided tours of the house run at half past the hour from 10.30am until 3.30pm.  

The house tours explore the extraordinary lives and works of former occupants Surrealist artist Roland Penrose and photographer Lee Miller.

Farleys Gallery (Sundays only) will be displaying an exhibition by Desmond Morris 10am-4.30pm.

Furniture

Bespoke restyling of outdated and tired furniture.

Paintings

Chris Mansell has a Degree in Fine Art and a Masters Degree in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art. He has work in the V&A and the Pushkin Collections.

Dress Making Workshop

We are a small independent sewing school offering a range of classes and workshops for adults, children and teenagers. Adult Classes run all year round, we run both morning and evening sessions

Paintings

Cow painter Veronica is often seen amongst the herd observing the cows with a sketchbook or through her camera lens.

Paintings

I started painting in 1995 via an introductory course at Eastbourne College of Art and Technology. My style is essentially realistic, combining spontaneity and energy with a strong sense of colour in acrylic, oil and watercolour.

Wood Engravings & Sculpture

I live and work in my native Sussex and am infused with the beauty and romance of this small corner of our country. I am constantly inspired by the world around me. To be able to engage in the landscape through my engravings deepens my appreciation and love of the world I am lucky enough to inhabit.

Wood Engraving has become a much cherished outlet for me. I fell in love with the medium even before I knew what it was. Leslie Benenson's work illustrating "Rudyard Kipling- A Sussex Anthology" was my first encounter. And a chance meeting with the accomplished, engraver Sybella Styles led me to classes with Diana Bloomfield.

Wood engraving is one of the simplest and most exquisite forms of printmaking. The print is made by engraving the reversed design into the mirror-smooth surface of a block of end grain box wood.

Photographer

Jim is a freelance photographer supplying pictures primarily for magazine features and working on both PR and corporate commissions.

His twenty-eight year career in photojournalism has seen his work appear in many national newspapers, regional dailies and magazines. His pictures have been said to reflect contemporary life with an engaging and sometimes light-hearted twist.

With an emphasis on features his style has attained several awards including two Guild of Picture Editor awards for Arts and Entertainment Photographer of the Year and the Fuji News Photographer of the Year.

Paintings

Contemporary British Landscape Artist, Rebecca Magner (nee Trotman), draws inspiration from her local environment; rural, coastal and industrial. Her paintings evolve through a messy, fearless, exploratory process of building up layers, scraping back, reworking and drawing in to.

Lampwork glass beadmaking

Let fire inspire!

Captivated by the magic of working with glass, Rebecca creates beautiful and unique lampwork beads and offers a range of beadmaking courses.

Ceramics

My work is influenced by a combination of the form of the local landscape and the marks left in it by our ancestors and the desire to make functional objects particularly those associated with food. I enjoy the process of making but also being able further to affect the work by firing with wood to colour any unglazed surface. I work mainly in stoneware clays to produce cups , jugs, bowls and plates as well as casseroles.

Paintings

I draw and paint in oil and watercolour spontaneously and direct from life, figures and the landscape.

Ceramics

David’s work is thrown, assembled, burnished and pit-fired with salt and oxides, and is inspired by local finds of Romano-British pottery and Mesolithic stone tools.

Ceramics

My work is a combination of wheel thrown porcelain, press moulded Raku functional and decorative wall plates. The subject of the decoration is taken from my observational line drawings in nature and applied in decal form. More recently I have been adding colour and printing onto the surface using the clay as canvas.

Paintings

Barbie is inspired by the view from her garden studio and her love of the Sussex landscape and its wildlife. Her paintings are personal, modern-day icons with a timeless edge.

Sculpture

A member of the Royal Society of Sculptors for 20 years, and with work in public and private collections internationally, Peter works mainly in stone, wood and rope.

Paintings

Christa Hook is a fine artist and illustrator for museums, galleries, military organisations, fiction and non-fiction publishers and private commissions.

Ceramics

Sussex born Yolande Beer maker of brightly coloured earthenware and white stoneware.

3D Mixed Media

An Eclectic artist creating mixed media artworks.

I am a textiles artist living on the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. Having studied textile design at the London Institute in 2000 I now create mixed media designs which are produced as seasonal greeting cards, edition prints and original paintings on board.