Step inside Colonnade House as part of Worthing Artists Open House 2025.
Visit a selection of our Studio Members and see them at work, check out their latest creations & learn about their practices, processes and ideas.
Exhibitions in Gallery 1 & 2 on the ground floor accessible via Warwick Street will also be open all weekend.
Venue information:
The Open Studios are accessible via the separate entrance on High Street. All of our Studios at Colonnade House are upstairs – there is no lift.
As these are artists workspaces, please be aware that some studios may not be open when you visit.
Studio 2: Jenni Watson
Jenni will be opening her studio for visitors to see new paintings based on her recent & very successful ‘Transience’ exhibition in Gallery 2; here at Colonnade House.
Studio 2: Sarah Sepe
Sarah says; “Since moving into my studio at Colonnade House earlier this year my work has been focused on making crepe paper flowers alongside some abstract paintings, drawings and prints – inspired by my garden.
‘Never underestimate the power
Of a delicate flower’
From Boys like Flowers, Nuno Freitas 2020
Studio 3: Jade Wrenn
Jade has featured in a recent exhibition at the Phoenix Artspace in Brighton alongside fellow Fine Art graduate Raynor Hadland. Both exploring the tension between human beings and with the environment they rely on. The conservation and yet calculated destruction and discard. The compromise.
Mirrors the push and pull of existence experienced physically and emotionally, externally and internally. The perpetual cycle of life in nature and humans.
Pieces from this exhibition are present within the studio. The majority of the pieces were created in a small wooded area. The studio provides a stark contrast to the environment it originated in.
There will also be current work from the artist to view small sculptures, prints and photography.
Come and explore what goes on behind the doors of an artist exploring materials and motives.
Studio 3: Raynor Hadland
As a recent graduate of a BA Fine Art Degree Raynor’s work is a dynamic process of intuitive mark making, where each stroke and constructed element captures a raw emotional response, deeply rooted in personal relationships and a sense of place.
Much inspired by the natural local environment her work, spanning painting, drawing and 3 dimensional formats explores the transient nature of existence aiming to encourage viewers to take a new look at their own surroundings, finding beauty and meaning in the everyday.
Studio 3: Wendy Brown
Wendy says; “Roland Barthes, the French philosopher, describes the intoxicating power of colour as ‘a kind of bliss’.
But for me colour needs a vehicle or a context.
I work to find a context where colour exists to create a purely visual experience.
I choose to work in cut out painted paper as I come from a sculpture background where the process is the same as my previous practice.
In this scenario now, I paint, I cut out, I assemble.”
Studio 6: Sarah Trowsdale
Sarah’s work has strong cultural and historical research elements which explore women throughout history who have been physically engaged in warfare, rebellions or acts of aggression against oppressors. Sarah uses the information she finds to create dynamic art quilts representing them. Presenting their stories in this way makes her research easily accessible to a broad range of socio-economic groups and shares history across cultures and countries.
Studio 8: Mia Bilbeisi
Mia is a West Sussex-based artist currently using her studio as a space to play with colour, form and texture.
She focuses on the interplay between two and three-dimensional forms, blurring the lines between painting and sculpture. By transforming discarded domestic fabrics through dyeing and restitching, Mia gives these unwanted materials new life. The resulting forms loosely reference familiar places and people, but are recontextualised, creating works that are both known and subtly ambiguous.
Open 20/21 + 27/28 September // 10.00 – 17.00