Hove painter Caroline Oleron opens her first solo show in Brunswick Square

Caroline Oleron², a painter based in Hove, opens her first solo exhibition at the Regency Town House^1,3 in Brunswick Square today. It’s Alright: The Permission Project runs until Sunday 1 November.

The show is built on one unfinished sentence: “It’s alright that I…”. Oleron gathered hundreds of anonymous answers to it. As she writes on her website, “Some are funny, others more difficult to say out loud.”

There are two rooms. The first holds 12 artworks on relationships, self-worth, hopes and fears. In the second, visitors follow a path through the collected responses, and they can add their own.

Oleron developed the project during an MA in Creative Practice with the University of Plymouth. She trained in Paris at Penninghen and at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham. Her paintings explore hiding and concealment, built up in layers of colour and drawn from the natural and botanical world.

Three events run alongside the show. There’s a private view on Friday, 6.30–8.30pm, collaborative painting on Saturday from 11am to 2pm, and afternoon tea on Sunday from 3pm to 5pm. A short-run zine, It’s Alright That I…, collects paintings and responses from the project and is on sale online.

The Town House lists the exhibition as open from 10am to 6pm each day.