Neil is a designer and illustrator, based in Hastings, with a deep love for imagined characters, bold colour and playful antics. The work here is influenced by the mischief, mayhem and merriment associated with Spring/Summer and the festivities of Jack in the Green - especially his rambunctious Bogies. This marks Neil’s first exploration of working in wood, and only his second exhibition.
This is Cat’s first solo show since her time in Portland, where she exhibited a collection of paper plants and insects (Specimens at Nucleus Gallery). For this latest show she has created a series of characters, creatures and masks, partially inspired by Jack In The Green. The framed paper characters are all poseable and the scenery behind them is removable, so each scene can be taken out of the frame and displayed or played with. The masks are a mix of animals and fantastical floral creatures, made using felt, paper and papier mache/epoxy clay on cardboard.
Ibi Meier-Oruitemeka is a self taught painter based in Hastings. Her work explores themes of human connection and the ways individuals influence and shape one another. Meier-Oruitemeka had her debut solo exhibition, Soft Mirrors, in 2024 at Big Yin Gallery, and her work sits in the permanent collection at the University of Cambridge. Her practice continues to evolve as a deeply personal yet universal meditation on relationships, resilience, and the shared human experience.
Stream of unconscious, element of chance, order out of chaos. "It will take about five hours when the painting will be completed. As a child I visited my granny in Pett during the holidays. All my work has been done outside in an area of east Sussex, a part of the Romney Marshes. Later I moved to paint on the beach in a fishing tent, the reason being to see the sky facing a different way".
Working in a quiet, rural East Sussex studio, Jillian draws inspiration, reason and purpose from the perpetual shift of natural light, space, shade and sublime simplicity. Her working methods also bring a sculptural third dimension. This makes the work respond to the shifting light which originally inspired it. It is impossible to view a single piece without it ever revealing some unseen angle or hue.
Abi Moffat (b. 1992, Cardiff, UK) lives and works in Hastings. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University (2013) and a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (2018), where she was awarded the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship. In 2016 and 2017, Abi completed two large-scale public commissions for Transport for London and Leeds City Council in collaboration with established design studios. Her work was featured in The Saatchi Gallery Magazine in 2018. Abi has exhibited widely across the UK and has sold her paintings internationally.
Abi’s work is emotive and reactionary, driven by a love of exploring the material qualities of paint. Her practice delves into the impact of colour and the translation of natural light within a painted image. Through a spontaneous, process-led approach, she focuses on building rich layers of texture and depth on the surface. She applies, removes, and reapplies materials using a range of tools, brushes, and her own hands.
Rose Long is an artist based in East Sussex. She trained in Illustration at Camberwell School of Art, London and Theatre Design at Illinois State University, USA and the Banff Centre, Canada. She worked in retail marketing and design in London before moving to Hastings.. She has exhibited in London and contributed to group shows locally and around the UK.
Working in a variety of media and styles her focus is on colour, shape and form. She explores the balance between representation and abstraction combining flattened silhouettes and graphic blocks of colour to create simplified scenes, landscape or domestic which hint at a narrative.
Ingrid Solan is a Dublin-born artist, raised in South London and now based in Hastings, UK. She studied Fine Art at Middlesex University, specializing in conceptual installations. Currently, she works primarily in oils, creating contemporary seascapes inspired by the unique light and expansive horizons of the Sussex coastline.
Ingrid’s work explores themes of perception, subjectivity, and the shared beliefs that shape social structures and moral frameworks. Her compositions, colour choices, and artwork titles reflect an interest in how individuals make decisions and form mental categories.
She describes the sea as a powerful metaphor for the human experience—encompassing freedom, sustenance, fear, and renewal.
Ingrid uses palette knives, fingers, and brushes to produce both abstract and representational landscapes, drawing inspiration from the beaches, cliffs, and hills of Sussex.
I am a retired English language teacher. Since Covid, I have been creating art which I have exhibited in Hastings and France. I work on canvas using acrylics, pastels and mixed media. I love to use colour as much as possible and like to experiment with various mediums. My work is eclectic, as I like to draw / paint what I am inspired by and turn it into abstract.
Arthur TT is also known as Arthur Thompson-Talbot aged 9. He lives on the West Hill in Hastings with his mum, dad, brother Wilf (7) and dog Bagel. Art is his superpower and he’s rarely seen without his notebook (sketch pad) and favourite pen (V ball 0.7). As well as art he likes lego, squidgy things, fiddle toys, boxes and food, particularly noodles which he’d eat every day if he could.