Hi Jo – As we are beginning to take very tentative steps out of lockdown, it would be great to hear a bit about what you have been doing during the lockdown period. Can you tell us a little bit about the project you have been working on? I have been out shooting the night […]

Hi Lynda – You were planning to take part in the AOH Festival for the first time this May, as part of the Kemp Town trail. Since then life has been put on hold due to lockdown. Can you tell us a bit about who you are and what you do? I am a small […]

Hi Sophie – We’ve been in lockdown for over two months now. How has the experience affected you and impacted on your creative life? Initially I found the silence of lockdown extremely moving and through the imposed stillness found myself going further into meditative practices. I’ve experienced what feels like a deeper grounding in my […]

  Hi Lucy  – We’ve been in lockdown for nearly nine weeks. Hopefully we’re slowly coming out of it now, but we’d love to hear about what you have been doing during this period. Can you tell us how your project Art and Only Art came about? My sister and five of her friends set […]

  Hi Jan – We’ve been in lockdown for eight weeks now, would you like to tell us about how your feelings and emotions have changed over this period? It feels like a very long time ago since the lockdown began, and life has taken on a distinctly surreal quality…waking each day to find that, […]

We’re now two months into our strange new lives in lockdown – would you like to tell us a bit about how you are adapting to the currently reality? At the beginning of the lockdown I was a bit uneasy, as the way that I usually I do things had to change. My working experience […]

Kay Aplin at her home – The Ceramic House Stanmer Villas Brighton (image credit: Jim Holden) Hi Kay – We’ve all been in lockdown for nearly two months now –it sounds as though you have made good use of time throughout this period. Would you like to tell us about the Ceramic House blog you […]

Hi Lanie  – It’s May and the Rose Hill Rebels should be exhibiting their work to visitors as part of the Artists Open Houses festival now. Instead we are all two months into lockdown and for many of us, especially older people, a period of lonely isolation.   Can you tell us about the Rose […]

Hi Becky, last weekend would have seen the start of the AOH festival, for which you were to be the May 2020 brochure cover artist. As plans have now been inevitably delayed for a few months, due to the coronavirus, we wondered if you would like to tell us a bit about what you are […]

Issued: March 18, 2020 Following careful consideration in response to the current Covid-19 outbreak, we will be postponing Brighton and Hove’s Artists Open Houses Festival, which was due to take place throughout the city and beyond over the month of May 2020. We currently  aim to  reschedule the AOH Festival  for October 2020 . Judy […]