10th Anniversary of PURE Autumn Art Fair 2019

PURE Autumn Art Fair Battle 10 Anniversary edition 5 – 13 October 2019

The prestigious PURE Autumn Art Fair will return to the beautiful and historic PowderMills Hotel, Battle, East Sussex between 5 and 13 October 2019 for its 10th Anniversary edition.

OPEN DAILY - 11.00am to 5.00pm

The PowderMills is a stunning privately owned 18th Century listed Country House nestling in 150 acres of beautiful parklands, woods and large lakes, situated just outside the historic town of Battle, adjoining the famous Battlefield of 1066. 

The 2019 PURE Autumn Art Fair will showcase artwork by an invited group of artists, representative of the last 10 years. Curated by Lesley Samms, it will feature the work of some forty skilled and talented artists working across all fine art media including painting, drawing, printmaking, digital art, photography, sculpture, ceramics and glass. 

Exhibitors will include 2018 award winners - 

Simone Riley has developed her own unique style and technique creating images that sit between photography and fine art. The finished artwork is in amalgamation of many different layers and often combines elements taken from several different images.

Will Taylor SGFA RBA,. Will’s prints have a traditional feel; they are copper plate etchings using only line and cross-hatch in monotone to create a range of tones. His topographical themes are inspired by the south coast and travels around the world. Printmaking is the culmination of various working methods which include drawing and painting.

Celia Allen NDD,- makes mainly animal sculptures using various clays and glazes. Her firing methods are either oxidised stoneware or Raku. Raku gives crazing effects to glazed areas, smokey black surfaces to unglazed areas and metallic flashes where oxide mixes have been applied.

 Nick Hebditch, Nick has a passion for painting rural and urban landscapes which has led him to paint on the Continent, London and UK. He enjoys the possibilities of mark making, surface textures and abstract qualities encountered through the act of painting.

 Gavin Roweth is a sculptor and owner of Wing Gallery, Wadhurst. His work is guided more by the material he uses, principally Portland Limestone. Carving directly into stone, creating simple or complex abstract forms. He looks to create harmony between the stone and the sculptor using chisel and file

 Hildegard Pax - The inspiration of hildegard’s work stems from the observation of light in nature. Glass is central to her work with it’s qualities of reflection, refraction, opacity and translucency. In the assemblages of glass she strives to make the invisible visible. Hildegard paints with light using colour, lines and shapes to create intriguing and mesmerising fields of projected colour