Twelve Fiveways Artists bring their work to Rottingdean from Wednesday

Twelve members of the Fiveways Artists group are showing their work at The Grange Gallery in Rottingdean from Wednesday 28 October to Sunday 22 November. The gallery, run by Rottingdean Heritage^1,2,3,5,6,7, opens Wednesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm and on Sundays from 1pm to 4pm.

The group goes back to 1982, when the Fiveways artist Ned Hoskins opened his front door so people could see his work and that of a group of friends. Other artists nearby did the same, and the trails that followed around the city became the Artists Open Houses⁴. In May 2025, 23 venues in Fiveways opened their doors for the festival.

The artists in this show are Sam Beck, Martin Brown, Linda Church, Jude Clynic, Mark Findlay, Angie Harrison, Hiroko Lewis, Val Mager, Carolyn Nicholls, Jane Palmer, Jing Wang and Eva Wibberley. The gallery calls it “an eclectic range of works”.

Most of them were in an earlier Fiveways show at The Grange, and the gallery described their work then. Jing Wang paints flowers and birds on Xuan rice paper with traditional ink and mineral pigments. Val Mager makes relief and intaglio prints, including reduction lino prints of the local landscape. Hiroko Lewis uses “haku” metal leaf in her semi-abstract mixed media pieces, and Jane Palmer paints South Downs landscapes as dreamscapes.

The gallery is on the first floor above Rottingdean Library, opposite the village pond, and has a chairlift.