MAKING COASTAL ART IN BRIGHTON
Connecting with the coast’ is the title of a three-hour workshop in Brighton at ‘Connecting Atelier Beside the Sea, an art gallery-shop and ‘make’ space in three of the arches on the seafront that opened in June 2021. Some of these Victorian arches, built to support the promenade above, are large enough to store fishing boats. Others were originally used as chalets and shops. Most have been modernised over the years and now house nightclubs, cafés, art galleries and Brighton’s fishing museum. They’re a perfect location to connect with the coast, just a beach pebble’s throw from the sea.
The aim of the workshop is to have fun making interesting papers and surfaces to use to create a collage in response to the Sussex coastline and Brighton seafront. Everyone is welcome. ‘The energy and unselfconsciousness of the beginner is a wonderful freeing reminder to the experienced, while the experience of the more established student teaches the beginner a lot, so it’s win-win,’ says the welcome
