Paintings & children's books

The works contained in this catalogue have been produced over the last two years but represent a culmination of all that has gone before. This process has been accelerated by a recent return visit to Australia and New Zealand.

Photography, film & 3D

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 will be displaying an exhibition by Antony Penrose.

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.

Wood Engravings

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.

Lampwork glass beadmaking

Let fire inspire!

With Venetian glass rods and a 1000 degree torch flame, Rebecca creates artisan lampwork glass beads using ancient glassworking techniques in a contemporary setting.

Visit the workshop to watch Rebecca working her magic at the torch and browse an extensive and varied range of her unique handmade glass beads and jewellery.

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.

Ceramics

My studio is at the bottom of a wild garden overlooking a big pond and is the environment which inspires my creative work. My hand-built ceramics are richly textured and include wall panels with imprints from plants and flowers, and in contrast. more abstract painted landscapes.

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.

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.

Mixed Media & 3D

In my own art practice, I have been a commissioned artist since 1999 after graduating from Central Saint Martins, London, with a degree in Textile Design. Over the years I have developed my own individual style, painting and creating bespoke canvases, limited edition prints, wall hangings murals and accessories; my work has been commissioned for restaurants, bars, private and commercial properties. Each piece of my work is completely unique, incorporating an eclectic mix of vintage, sourced, collected, foraged and found materials such as fabrics, papers, leathers, threads and beads. I see the beauty in the over looked, discarded and forgotten.