Studio 87 Open House May 2025
May Sat 3, Sun 4, Mon 5, Sat 10, Sun 11, Sat 17, Sun 18, Sat 24, Sun 25, Mon 26
11am - 5pm
Studio 87 opens for its fourth year with more artists and more variety. Our cafe will be open serving traditional cakes and tea to enjoy in the garden. We are showing a variety of watercolour, gouache, contemporary landscapes in oils, jewellery, wood turning, handbags and woodwork. We have garden sculpture and metal bird baths and leaves. We love to talk to you so come and spend some time with us.
We are supporting The Martlets Hospice, in memory of our beloved Rosie, Knight Support (Brightons homeless) and Cystic Fibrosis.
Clair Letton, Handbags
Elizabeth Ockford, Print Making
Liza Morton, Ceramics
Rose Ledbury, Jewellery
Chris Ford, Pottery
Floor Shevlin, Sculpture
William Hulbert, Woodwork
Watercolour, mixed media and monoprint
These are my passion!
You can find me at Studio 87 and I'm a member of FiveWays Artists Group
An outside sketch done on the top of Ditchling beacon. Paintng watercolour outside is always a challence, it drips, and doesn't dry the way you want if you like layering paint as I do. Small flies fling themselves at your work and stick to it, your water supply is limited and gets dirty quickly. The envious wind tries to pluck your work away. I don't know why I do it. But it's so wonderful to be out there, looking at the Sussex landscape, hoping you might chanel a bit of Ravilious in your work. This small work (A4 size) is sold. Too late! but I have other work for sale.
Watercolour still life 'The Little Bird'. These yellow roses grow right outside my art studio, I'm a big fan of pears and limes to paint. This still life more or less created itself when I put the roses in my best blue vase and sat it on an old lace table cloth. It grew from there. Yes, it's for sale, framed with a light gray border under glass.
Apple and cactus at the carnival. Another still life. This one has my embroidery scissors looking like a bird. I love the slightly strange association on elements. This one is for sale; framed in light gray and under glass.
Watercolour 'Gods and orchids'. A still life of an orchid I was given as a present and the Indian God Ganesha, the elephant God, who was also a gift. The little cat is made of crytal and sleeps quietly in the corner of the painting. Framed in pale gray and for sale. email me if you'd like any of the works on this page. carolyn.nicholls@me.com