Dupont Art Club (21st August 2018) This year was a successful year for the Dupont Art Club’s annual art exhibition. We saw close to 500 people attend with over £1000.00 in sales. We were pleased with these numbers considering the poor weather for half of the days. This year we set up a separate area […]
BHAC – 21st April 2018 The 2018 Spring Exhibition by Brighton & Hove Arts Council ended today, 21st April, with our Trustee, Mr John Hird, announcing the winner of “The People’s Choice” for the public’s favourite exhibit. This year, the cup was awarded to Vanessa Reynolds of Adur Art Collective for her painting entitled […]
Hove Civic Society (20th January 2018) This is the year when the Hove Plinth becomes a reality after all the hard work to reach this stage. From next month, you should see work beginning on the sea front just south of the Queen Victoria statue on Grand Avenue. The fencing will go up first to […]
Rottingdean Preservation Society 8th September 2017 Over the last few months, the Society has worked closely with the Whiteway Centre to renovate the Nicholson Studio, which was once part of the Grange Gardens, but now lies in the grounds of St Margaret’s School. It was built in 1912, and was designed by their friend, […]
Dupont Art Club (6th September 2017) Victor Perkins was the winner of the Peoples Choice award at this years Dupont Art Club annual Art Exhibition, which ran from 24th to 26th August. The lovely pencil drawing titled SHH is shown here with Victor and Dupont Chairman, John Hird. Victor received the Dupont cup […]
Hove Civic Society (24th May 2017) Hove Civic Society has planning permission to install a stone plinth on the King’s Esplanade at the foot of Grand Avenue. The plinth will be used for changing displays of sculpture, inspired by the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. It will have technological capabilities to make viewing the […]
Brighton & Hove Arts Council (29th April 2017) The Brighton & Hove Arts Council’s Spring Exhibition is over for another year. Six art groups took part this year – Adur Art Collective, Dupont Art Club, Embroiderers’ Guild, St. Thomas More Art Group, Society of Catholic Artists, and the Society of Sussex Painters. Hundreds of visitors […]
Dupont Art Club (26th April 2017) Recently my friend and fellow artist Tina Stiles arranged to visit the Dane House seniors’ home to teach art. This was initiated by Brighton and Hove Arts Council who arrange for outreach to the community to enrich the lives of others through having some of their many member organizations […]
Dupont Art Group (7th April 2017) On January 5th, 2017 I was contacted by my friend and internationally known artist Lisa Cirenza. She asked if I would like to join a small group composed of two of the trustees for the London International Gallery of Children’s Art,(LIGCA), Susie Craven and Paola Langobardi, a volunteer, Emanuela […]