Dwell
27 February – 15 March 2026
Worthing Town Centre businesses are opening their doors to artists this off season. DWELL is a pilot organised by Worthing Borough Council, Colonnade House, East Beach Studios, Between the Blue & Green film festival and Worthing Small Traders with support from Worthing BID.
Take a look at what’s on acorss Worthing and find out how you can take part in DWELL 2027 below.
COAST
Beach Parade, Worthing, BN11 2FG
Klaus Piechocki
Klaus Piechocki (he/they) is an illustrator based in Worthing. He is the author and illustrator of The Hierophanies Tarot (2025), a colourful and queer tarot deck. Klaus was shortlisted for the Madame F Queer Britain Art Award in 2025.
Much of their self initiated work explores gender and diversity. An ongoing theme of his work is drawing beautiful and ornate portraits of men, because we don’t see enough positive representation of men and masc nonbinary people exploring femininity.
Klaus works in both a semi-realistic style using pencils and copic markers, and also paints digitally. He often use analog and digital tools interchangeably for a single piece.
Klaus also runs workshops helping members of the public to design their own queer tarot card with collage. He recently ran the workshop for the House Proud event at National Trust property Hatchlands Park in Surrey.
Instagram: @klauspiechocki_illustration
Hannah Singleton
Hannah Singleton is a portrait and figurative artist based in West Sussex. Hannah is fuelled by inventive ways of looking and depicting gaze, power and agency. This oil painting depicts what appears to be a mirror image of a person but on closer inspection, there are subtle differences in the angle, which is tilted, resulting in slightly altered portrayals. The hues are also slightly varied between the figures. There is visual intrigue – a potential conversation between viewer and painting, perfect for the objective behind the Dwell initiative.
The painting has possible effects of shifting perspectives, gently suggesting the existence of multiple vantage points, multiple realities. As a metaphor that’s useful for humanity – encouraging tolerance of differences.
Hannah paints with feelings of nostalgia that don’t travel in straight lines – rather here, there and everywhere, in non-linear directions. It’s from here that Hannah builds an original, world-building narrative environment and paintings that appeal to people for their rich storytelling possibilities.
Instagram: @hannah.singleton.art
About the venue
Coast Cafe is situated right on the busy front next to the East BEach Artist Studios. It’s a quirky building that has grown from a 1938 ice cream and tea room into a cafe, bar and venue. The building has many different areas and features including octagonal rooms, under cover terrace overlooking the sea., large open café/venue area. The overall scheme of coast is rustic Cuban style with bright colours, brick walls, corrugated metal celling , and concrete bar worktops. Coast Has always been an informal place.
Jacobs Bagels
9 Bath Place, Worthing BN11 3BA
Julie Ingham
Julie Ingham is a skilled illustrator and designer with 25 years of industry experience. I’ve worked with prominent international brands, demonstrating my creativity and versatility in both textile design and illustration. The Design by Julie Ingham collection features exclusive prints and products, including the Coastal Range—a stunning assortment of prints offered in both framed and unframed options, well as tea towels, placemats, coasters, scarves, notebooks, and cards.
Instagram: @designbyjulieingham
About the venue
Jacob’s Bagels is an independent Sussex bakery focused on traditional methods and honest food. The business hand shapes, boils, and bakes bagels using organic ingredients, following time tested processes rather than shortcuts. Baking takes place in a dedicated bakery, with sales through a high street shop and direct orders. During summer months, solar power supports production, keeping energy use low while standards stay high. Alongside daily trade, Jacob’s Bagels runs bagel making experience days, giving people a practical look at real bakery work. The business values consistency, skill, and local connection, with an eye on steady growth built on strong foundations rather than trends.
Anchored in Worthing
14 Montague Place, Worthing, BN11 3BG
Carole Morris
A self-taught artist based in West Sussex, Carole Morris brings a sense of wonder and warmth to every piece she creates. After a successful career in accountancy, Carole embraced her lifelong passion for art, exploring pastels, oils, and charcoal. Her work spans expressive wildlife, evocative skyscapes, and large-scale portraits, each infused with a love for light and texture. Carole’s portraits on A1 paper capture personality and energy, while her landscapes and animal studies reflect a deep appreciation for nature’s beauty. Continually learning and experimenting, Carole’s art invites viewers to pause, reflect, and connect.
Molly Bunn
Molly Bunn is a Worthing based artist, who goes by PENK arts online.
She works primarily in Watercolour and Ink with preferred subjects being landscape and architectural portraiture.
The paintings aim to portray the history of the subjects, and in particular to highlight the personal social history that people hold within a place.
Instagram: @penkarts
Facebook: @PENKarts
About the venue
Anchored in Worthing, the original Sussex Micropub. Here the emphasis is on local ales, wines spirits and soft drinks and would suit an artist with a similar ethos. Anchored is open from noon until around 10:30 pm most days of the week.
To Be Worn Again
151 – 153 Montague St, Worthing, BN11 3BZ
Dominic Bradnum
Dominic Bradnum creates dramatic, photo-expressionistic paintings of local seascapes and urban scenes, in which he imagines neon signs that declare enigmatic slogans and fragments of poetry. These glowing interventions introduce an uncanny, dreamlike charge to otherwise familiar, often empty places.
Instagram: @neonpainter77
About the venue
To Be Worn again is a vibrant second-hand and vintage clothing shop filled with timeless classics and statement pieces. Colour is key at To Be Worn Again and self expression is their specialty wih a love for anything fun, unique, bright and colourful! From 1950s to Y2K, you can sustainably find or feed your style through every season with their pre-loved second-hand finds.
Malt
167 Montague St, Worthing, BN11 3BZ
Mary Fivey
Mary Fivey is a Worthing based artist from Fermanagh, Ireland, living in Worthing and has become obsessed with the local landscape. Living so near to the beach has been a never ending source of inspiration in her artwork. Mary mostly works in oil paintings and is inspired by Worthing seafront, the weather, the sea and the sky.
Instagram: @mary_fivey
About the venue
A little bit of Brighton in the heart of Worthing, Malt serves specialty coffee, delicious breakfast, brunch, lunch, cake and more.
Jonny’s
19 Warwick St, Worthing, BN11 3DF
Kathy Williams
Williams has chosen some smaller hi colour painted works that reflect her celebration of gesture, joy and paint. Panels can be selected and rearranged by ideas of other people which is a central aspect of her practice, as well as challenging expectations of what painting is and can be… does it need to be on a flat, opaque surface… can we create multi-imaged work, play with light, movement and colour?
Kathy has also installed work by Like Spencer, as complimentary who is a photographer interested in science, spirit and story.
Instagram: @kathywilliamsartist
About the venue
Jonny’s is the perfect space to hang your art. With it’s central location, high footfall and popularity amongst locals and visitors alike you’ll be able to showcase your art in a modern, minimally cluttered environment where the artworks will stand out
Laughing Dog
20-22 Brighton Rd, Worthing, BN11 3ED
Andy Crofts
Andy Crofts is an abstract artist whose work is driven by emotion, instinct, and personal expression. Best known for his music career as bass player for Paul Weller for 15 years, and as the frontman and songwriter of The Moons, Andy brings the same passion and honesty to his visual art. His pieces are vibrant, layered, and soulful, reflecting a deep connection to feeling, memory, and energy. Each work is created from the inside out, with love, movement, and expression at its core.
Instagram: @andyjcrofts
Eleanor Walker-Todd
Eleanor is a designer and maker of textiles. She studied the art of Shibori dyeing techniques at Morley College London and continued that learning in Japan under Takayuki Ishii, an indigo dye artisan, and at the Shibori Museum in Kyoto.
She is drawn to the language of Japanese textile culture, which puts great importance on mindfulness, creating beautiful everyday objects and becoming a master of your craft. Her work is seasonal, using dye plants from her garden in Worthing.
Her work to date showcases her exploration of Anglo-Japanese textile design, incorporating natural plant-based dyeing. Last summer Eleanor focused on Tataki Zome (flower pounding), with flowers she has grown in her garden or waste from a local flower farm. With the textiles Eleanor creates, she makes wall hangings, framed pieces and items for the home such as upholstered room dividers and lampshades.
You can follow her process @eleanorwalkertodd and watch what she creates change with the seasons.
Katie Cox
Katie Cox presents two A2 works exploring architecture, surface, and the subtle shifts of light in built environments. ‘Ornament and Structure’ combines pencil drawing of Chichester Cathedral with layered pattern, collage, and acetate marked in white Posca pen, bringing together historic form and contemporary detail. ‘Passing Light’ is an acrylic painting in restrained beige and grey tones, divided into four sections to reflect how light continuously alters the appearance of exterior spaces. Together, these works invite quiet observation, balancing structure and atmosphere, and offer a calm yet thoughtful presence well suited to shared, professional environments.
Instagram: @katiejaynecoxart
Vanessa Neale
Vanessa has lived in Worthing all her life, dedicating over 25 years to volunteering and working in schools. A lifelong creative, she loves picking up a paintbrush whenever she can. She enjoys creating both fun and useful objects. Vanessa’s style and use of vibrant colours reflects her passion and personality. She was selected to take part in Worthing’s Portrait Artist of the Year competition in 2023 and has also designed and decorated a fire helmet to raise money for charity. Vanessa is currently helping to support community art projects through her volunteer work with Worthing Artist Open Houses.
Eleonora Medwell
Eleonora Medwell is a self-taught mixed-media artist of Ukrainian origin whose practice is driven by curiosity and a love of experimentation. Based in Sussex for over twenty years, she works primarily with acrylics and collage, using these flexible materials to explore texture, layering, and narrative. Her work tells quiet visual stories rooted in emotion and tactile experience. Central to her practice is an exploration of womanhood—identity, personal transformation, vulnerability, and inner strength. Another important source of inspiration is the beauty and fragility of nature, its resilience and impermanence. Her work has been shown in exhibitions across the UK and internationally.
Instagram: @elenoramedwell_art
About the venue
Laughing Dog is a bright, colourful and welcoming environment with a menu designed for the whole family. Sit back relax and enjoy our locally roasted coffee or take part and make use of the space for events and meet ups. We have large chalk board for customers to create their own masterpieces and plenty of laptop friendly seating. Our small shop offers visitors the opportunity to find that perfect little something to gift and we welcome four legged friends too.
Chintz and Wood
63 Brighton Road, Worthing, BN11 3EE
Linescapes
Linescapes specialises in highly detailed CAD architectural portraits of iconic buildings, architectural landmarks and beloved homes. Set up in 2014 by Amalia Sanchez de la Blanca, Linescapes offers a range of architecture-inspired prints, cards and gifts.
Amalia has built a collection of over 70 illustrations which are available from stock. She also carries out commissions for private individuals, businesses, and cultural organisations.
Amalia’s background as an architect and consequent attention to detail and her trademark style ensures that all her products sit well together in elegant and understated collections.
Instagram: @linescapes
Alison Tyldesley
Alison lives in West Sussex and has a studio at Colonnade House in Worthing.
Alison has exhibited successfully with a number of galleries across the UK. She has a degree in Fine Art from Exeter and now dedicates herself to art practice. Currently her work is exhibited at Workshop Wales Gallery and Hope Contemporary. She also shows her work locally at Colonnade House and with the West Sussex Art Society.
With a close affinity to the British coastline and countryside her paintings attempt to address the delicate balance between abstraction and representation. In addition she has recently focused on colourful mixed media still lives and landscapes. These include collage, paint, gelli printing, and stencilling.
About the Venue
Chintz & Wood is a shop selling handmade homewares made in Worthing — from hand-turned wooden bowls to naturally dyed cushions and lampshades. Chintz & Wood is a small homewares shop built around objects that are meant to be used and kept. Not mass-produced, not precious — just well made pieces with character, made locally and designed to last. Made in small batches, using honest materials and traditional processes.
The Old Bike Store
65 Brighton Road, Worthing, BN11 3EE
Nora Young
Nora Young is an artist working in a range of media. Work responds to the natural environment of our town and often is linked to the human form. Varying in size and approaches include painting, drawing, collage and print.
Instagram: @nora.young
About the Venue
The Old Bike Store is an Indie taproom specialising in beer. No macro here, only independent breweries and producers. They focus on community and excellence in the setting of an old bike store.
Bygone Treasures
33 Brighton Road, Worthing, BN11 3EF
Deb Dumbrell
Deb’s paintings, usually using preloved pictures & frames explore grief, nature and the subconscious,depicting flora & fauna hiding a darker narrative.
Instagram: @debdumbrellartist
Facebook: @debdumbrellartist
Kate Orton
Based in Worthing, drawing has always been part of Kate’s practice. An alumni of the Royal Drawing School, she spent 2024 studying all aspects of drawing on the Online Drawing Development Year. Fascinated by nature’s response to human influence, her work explores marginal and forgotten spaces where animals and plants create a niche. Kate hopes to unify observation and abstraction, two dimensions and three, symbolic and literal; creating works with physical presence and emotional weight.
Instagram: @orton.kate
About the Venue
Bygone Treasures is a vintage and antiques shop in Worthing with a wealth of variety and very varied customer base alongside good footfall and window displays.
Flux Piercing
4 Stanford Square, Worthing, BN11 3EZ
Jubal Prevatte
Jubal Prevatte’s work celebrates the stories held in wood. It’s process-led: a responsive conversation with the material. On the lathe, Prevatte will seek out and centralise discovered imperfections such as burrs, knots or undulating edges. Once the turning is finished, another stage of metamorphoses begins. Prevatte allows environmental stresses to continue to pull and shape the piece, creating organic undulations, cracks, splits or mounds. These alterations often present the opportunity for mending with twine or splints, providing ballast for the wood and adding textural contrasts. The finish of the piece, whether with oil, wax or charring, is in direct response to the material’s qualities and grain.
Prevatte’s pieces are never truly ‘finished.’ His time with them may come to an end but the wood will continue to shift, to tell its own story, there for those who will listen.
Instagram: @jubalprevatte
About the Venue
Flux Piercing Stuio opened in 2001 with the goal of creating a safe and inclusive space for everyone and is now the oldest piercing studio in Worthing.
Inspired
20 The Promenade, Worthing, BN11 3FJ
Bryony Shearmur
“Cheap Sheets and Soiled Smalls” is a series of hand-embroidered works created on hospital blankets between 2015 and 2019. Emerging from a period of physical vulnerability, the project marked a pivotal shift in Bryony Shearmur’s practice toward greater openness and emotional honesty. Each piece takes the form of a letter or essay, addressing themes including intimacy, health, identity, ageing and artistic commitment. Through the slow, repetitive labour of embroidery, Bryony transforms private experience into material form, using self-exposure as a tool for connection rather than confession. The project initiated an ongoing enquiry into vulnerability, and the politics of emotional truth.
Adam Piechocki-Brown
Remains – During World War 2, cremation urns were hastily moved to catacombs to protect them from bombing raids. Decades later they were still underground and becoming transformed by time and the elements. Photographic artist Adam Piechocki-Brown was granted access to the rapidly disintegrating urns and was able to document them in-situ using a large-format camera.
Instagram: @adampiechockibrown_photo
About the venue
Situated on Worthing Seafront, you’ll find Inspired, run by Gemma & Sophie. Selling the works of over 50 local artists, designers and makers work alongside many other independent artists across the country. You’ll be able to find a mixture of cards, prints, clothing, homeware and more.
Waterstones
28 Montague St, Worthing BN11 3HA
Shona Macdonald
Shona M Macdonald is a mixed-media fine artist based in Worthing, working across drawing, sculpture, and painting. Her practice explores fragmentation, trauma, repair, and reimagination through natural materials, earth tones, and a sepia palette. Drawing on folk and fairy tales, Jungian shadow work, and animal symbolism, her work suggests partially hidden narratives shaped by memory and myth. Animal forms emerge as sculptural presences, evolving organically from drawn narratives and acting as quiet markers of the human psyche. Using foraged Scottish driftwood, charred, stained, and cast in bronze, Macdonald embraces transformation, integrating damage and change as pathways to wholeness. Her work is widely collected, and her public sculpture The Urban Fox was recently installed in Homefield Park. Her work can be viewed at Artspace 13 in Montague Place.
You can also find Shona’s sculptures at Reginald Ballum.
Instagram: @shonamormacdonaldart
About the venue
Situated in the heart of a bustling seaside market town, Waterstones Worthing is a community hub for a town with strong literary connections.
Green Fingers Florist
132 Montague St, Worthing, BN11 3HG
Shan Orr-Ewing
Following the break down of her fused glass kiln, Shân has returned to her first love of working in stained glass (copper foiling method) and following a short refresher course with Ellie Bond, stained glass artist, she has been making stained glass flowers and abstract shapes on stakes for in doors and out doors display. Shan uses vibrant colours in her work, and says the reflections and patterns cast from the glass is a piece of art in itself!
Instagram: @worthyshan1
About the venue
For over 35 years, Greenfingers Florists has been a trusted, family-run flower shop in the heart of the seaside town of Worthing. Led by head floral designer Rachel Matthews, our talented team of florists create stunning floral arrangements for every occasion, using only the freshest seasonal blooms.
Pizzaface
138 Montague St, Worthing BN11 3HG
Stacey Williams
Stacey is a Worthing based artist. Her work contemplates layers of time, absence and presence, often working in a ‘performative’ way over a set period, and often outdoors, inspired by nature. Using powdery charcoal layers, pencil or watery inks she reflects on memory, time, presence and loss and how this can be conveyed and meditated upon through drawing.
Her drawings also explore the relationship between drawing and other time-based practices, including performance, music and film and how this may be exhibited within and outside of a gallery space.
Instagram: @staceymwilliams79
About the venue
PIzzaface opened in Worthing in 2016, and has wonw many accolades including National Pizza of the Year, Best Pizzareia in the UK, and has the reigning, Pizza Chef of the Year. Pizzaface focuses on high quality, modern, experimental pizza and offers a relaxed, and cosy, queer friendly space.
Floral Cafe
7 Rowlands Rd, Worthing BN11 3JJ
Annabel Waters
Annabel Waters creates work around the subject of home, honouring the spaces we live in, love, and curate. Through depicting imagined spaces, she explores the link between home and happiness, celebrating home rituals and the comfort of familiar objects. Using acrylic and household paint, she connects her personal experience of home with her childhood obsession with ‘dream’ spaces and decoration. Working intuitively, she places emphasis on the importance of one’s environment, whilst also seeking to fulfil the increasingly unattainable and yet essentially human desire for autonomy over a space.
Instagram: @annabelwatersart
Genevieve Reed-Allen
The collages of Genevieve Reed-Allen are all one-off originals (not digital prints). They are light-hearted, relishing the combinations of unrelated components from a variety of different sources. Genevieve is interested in experimenting with taking parts of images out of their original context and encourages the viewer to make up their own story about the finished artwork. Genevieve is a college lecturer and has exhibited her work in both local and London galleries. Her artwork has won prizes and has sold well.
Instagram: @genevievereedallen
About the venue
Floral Cafe is situated in Worthing’s West End, a vibrant part of town with many small independents. You’ll recognise the Cafe by its unique entryway, which boasts a unique porch with an original stained glass feature. The Cafe provides a warm welcome with seating inside and a few outside tables. There is a cleverly designed menu offering breakfasts and light lunches, catering for varied dietary needs. The Cafe has been with the current owner for the past 6 years and for the past 4 years has been host to over 30 local artists.
Reginald Ballum
83 Rowlands Rd, Worthing BN11 3JN
Shona Macdonald
Shona M Macdonald is a mixed-media fine artist based in Worthing, working across drawing, sculpture, and painting. Her practice explores fragmentation, trauma, repair, and reimagination through natural materials, earth tones, and a sepia palette. Drawing on folk and fairy tales, Jungian shadow work, and animal symbolism, her work suggests partially hidden narratives shaped by memory and myth. Animal forms emerge as sculptural presences, evolving organically from drawn narratives and acting as quiet markers of the human psyche. Using foraged Scottish driftwood, charred, stained, and cast in bronze, Macdonald embraces transformation, integrating damage and change as pathways to wholeness. Her work is widely collected, and her public sculpture The Urban Fox was recently installed in Homefield Park. Her work can be viewed at Artspace 13 in Montague Place.
Instagram: @shonamormacdonaldart
About the venue
Reginald Ballum is a unique little antique shop based in the West End of Worthing sourcing, renovating and selling a diverse collection of vintage, classic, decorative and industrial pieces. The brainchild of founder and owner, Darren Peskett, Reginald Ballum was born from an inherent passion for building, decorating and making interiors look beautiful.
Interested in creative worthing? Be sure to check out other local businesses such as, First & Last, Handmade by Holly, Montague Gallery, Colonnade House, Gigglewick Gallery, and many more!
Are you a business or artist that missed out on DWELL? BE sure to register your interest for 2027 by filling out the Google Form here.