Hove

Yet another early morning, half-blind, still life. Without my glasses on, this appeared, bleary-eyed and interesting, supporting my jumping out of bed to grab my camera from another room and attach a macro lens to it. While the post is titled “glasses,” both my glasses and the bottle behind are, in fact, made of plastics.

Horse Chestnut

Close-up of green leaves silhouetted against a clear blue sky. — St Anne’s Well Gardens, Hove

Are You Lookin’ At Me?

A white pigeon with black speckles standing on green grass, with a blurred pigeon in the background. — St Anne’s Well Gardens, Hove

Victory

A wooden fence post surrounded by dense green foliage and plants. — St Anne’s Well Gardens, Hove

Gull

The Brighton and Hove u3a camera photography group went shooting in the Gardens last month and this is one I shot while we were there.

Pointing

Children playing outside a brick building with a colorful mural of a house and trees in a grassy area. — St Anne’s Well Gardens, Hove

Chairs

More work playing with the macro lens and the sunlight on and through plastic furniture.

Hove Flowers

Close-up of vibrant pink gladiolus flowers with elongated petals and green stems. — Hove, UK

Walking from one Artist Open House to the next in Hove we passed lots of front garden flowers (gladiolus above, purple Jerusalem sage below).

A close-up view of green plants with clusters of small pink flowers blooming among the foliage.

Growth Chart

A chalkboard wall listing famous artists and their respective scores, including Kandinsky, Basquiat, and Frida Kahlo, among others.

An amusing gloss on the artists’ own height chart in the next doorway at Studio 28a on our Hove Artists Open Houses tour last month.

Artists’ Tools

A creatively arranged artist's workspace featuring various jars of paint, paintbrushes in a holder, and watercolor paper with swatches and color samples. — Lara Bowen Contemporary, Hove

One of the pleasures of touring Brighton’s Artists Open Houses each May is seeing the artists’ tools, paints, and brushes and other craft paraphernalia. At Lara Bowen’s studio we saw a set of colour swatches she created in the depths of lockdown, capturing (and labeling) the emotions of those times.

A wall display featuring various painting brushes of different sizes and styles, some with paint stains and wear, arranged in an artistic manner.

Receding Balustrade

Close-up view of decorative fence posts with spherical tops, leading along a sidewalk with colorful buildings in the background. — King’s Gardens, Hove

The Artist

An art gallery wall displaying a variety of paintings in different styles, including portraits and abstract works, along with a sculpture and wooden artifacts. — Paul Houlton Studio, Hove

Another stop on our tour of Hove Artist Open Houses was the Paul Houlton Studio – he was displaying a lifetime’s worth of work in a variety of styles, capturing much of the 20^th century in Western art. Some remarkable work.

Inkpots

A stack of colorful paint buckets in various shades of blue, green, and black, with some paint splatters visible on the containers. — Industrial House, Hove

To reach Eunju Lee, a South Korean female luthier (last post), we walked through Inkspot Press and saw the screen, relief, letterpress and etching presses, and other paraphernalia.

The Instrument Maker

Close-up of violin parts, including the top plate, scroll, and back, resting on a blueprint for instrument design. — Industrial House, Hove

First day of visiting Artists’ Open Houses in Hove, we stopped at Industrial House where there were several to see. The above image shot in the studio of instrument maker Eunju Lee at Studio Six.

Still Life

A decorative ceramic duck figurine placed on a table, with a vase of small pink flowers and various birdhouse miniatures in the background. — Hove, UK

May was the month of the Artists Open Houses in Brighton and Hove and we spent our weekends visiting lots of them – too many to remember where each picture was taken. But here’s a table in one of the houses, laid out interestingly enough that I thought it might make a picture.

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