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Follow in the footsteps of modern artists and escape to the country
News | Art
Make like twentieth century radical artists Lee Miller, Vanessa Bell, and Ivon Hitchens – escape the city and hotfoot it to Sussex!
Artwave
Out and about on the Sussex art trail.
You’ve heard of Artists’ Open Houses during the Brighton Festival, for example? Well, this more like an Artists’ Open County, with more than 800 Sussex artists showing their work in studios and galleries – as well as some rather more unusual locations – around the Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven areas. Pick up a map, join the trail and you’ll be able to meet the artists and buy their work direct from them.
September // Sussex-wide
Mohamed Hamid in pottery Lewes. Credit Alun Callender
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Take the Coastal Culture Trail between three award-winning galleries: Towner Eastbourne, De La Warr Pavilion, and Hastings Contemporary.
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