During the Open ‘House’ you will pass down our hall of images into our main room displaying flowers in pastel and photographs of all kinds. Then there is our ‘Greek Toilet’ (not a hole in the floor but a display of images from travels abroad) - in our bathroom! Our South-facing and hopefully sunny garden is fascinating with many found objects and small sculptures interspersed with fascinating planting and a chance to be followed around by Sam, the dog! You can sit in the garden and enjoy a drink and maybe some cake before visiting the three garden studios - ‘The Chateau’ - Helene’s retreat, full of body forms/figures in pastels as well as ‘The Brighton Room’ with images from around Brighton and Hove. Finally, you finish in the ‘Buddha Shed’!
We hope that visitors like some of what we have to offer. If you want to own any you will find that all of the artworks are affordable and available framed, or just mounted. With Tony’s background in design and publishing we have produced a good selection of our own cards, some of which are original pastels from Helene alongside reproductions of our work. There are even some unique, one-off, never to be repeated original giclee posters from A4 size up to A1 and beyond!
Putting on an Open House for the first time is an adventure that fills us both with joy and trepidation. It’s fun living in an art gallery and allowing others to have a look around, too. Will anyone come? Will too many people come at once? Will they like what we are doing? Are we mad? Does it matter? There’s a lot to see so come prepared to linger and come again. We have decided to open from 10.30 until 6 each weekend of the festival which is a long day - we are one of the few Open Houses to open its doors so early in the morning so you could put us near the top of your list when you are trailing around Hove.

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