Worthing Artists Open Houses returns for September 2025 and we’re pleased to be a partner and venue again this year. Across the two weekends in September you can enjoy a group exhibition by five local artists for week one and a second group show by the Drawing Room for week two. There’s also an exciting opportunity to take a sneak peek at some of the artists studios here at Colonnade House.
This year you can find us at Venue 29. There’s also lots of other artists that will be opening their doors this September, take a look at the Worthing Artists Open Houses website and start planning your route around Worthing!
Find out more about what’s on at Colonnade House below;
UnSeen 2025
16 – 21 September 2025 // 10.00 – 17.00
Enjoy the work of five women artists all uniting in their desire to create new and experimental work. Anna Cates, Jane Denman, Lorraine Gibby, Fleur Grenier and Jessica Jordan will be sharing new and exciting work that offers a glimpse into their diverse practices uncovering what ‘UnSeen‘ means to each of them.
Find out more about each of the exhibiting artists here.
Drawing Room: Create. Connect. Inspire.
23 – 28 September 2025 // 10.00 – 17.00
Wendy Barratt set up the Drawing Room in 2016, bringing regular life drawing classes to Worthing. Since then, the community has grown with lots of local artists taking part in the classes every week.
The exhibition offers you the chance to see the work that goes on in the sessions by both the tutors and the students. From two minute sketches to larger scale paintings that have taken hours to complete, the exhibition showcases the experimentation, dedicated study and inspired thinking of the group.
Studio 2: Jenni Watson
Jenni Watson is a painter, tapestry weaver and printmaker. Inspired by the creative process, Jenni finds that it’s the making, not the completing that is so compelling.
Jenni will be opening her studio for visitors to see new paintings based on her recent and very successful ‘Transience‘ exhibition in Gallery 2 here at Colonnade House.
See more of Jenni’s work over on her Instagram.
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.
Take a look at Sarah’s Instagram to see what she’s been up to recently.
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.
You can see more of Jade’s work here.
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.
Find more of Raynor’s work on her Instagram.
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.”
You can see more of Wendy’s work here.
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.
You can see more of Sarah’s work on her Instagram.
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.
Find out more about Mia here.
