Step Inside My Joyous Exhibition!
Hello, Welcome back to my home and garden studio. Please come and explore! Every wall is adorned with expressive and joyous paintings. It’s been an eventful journey since last May – from participating in Martlets’ Shaun the Sheep sculpture trail (raising a huge £25k for the charity) to exhibiting at Celebrating Cuckmere as well as being invited to Glyndebourne’s Fair Ground exhibition. I have even had the pleasure of collaborating with St Ives School of Painting for a course and released a new collection of prints with King & McGaw. In the studio I’ve been experimenting with some mesmerising monochrome paintings too! I’ll be joined by Otti AKA lovely Rosie Shorter with her hand punched work.

What to expect:
– Explore my slightly messy garden studio.
– Immerse yourself in a new collection of original contemporary paintings, featuring vibrant landscapes and bold florals.
– I’ll be here to advise and have a good chat too :)
Be the first to preview the collection by signing up for my mailing list (see my website)

What will be on offer:
– Original paintings and drawings
– Hand-finished limited edition prints
– Uplifting greetings cards
– Exciting new product: Sketch Squares – a must-have for every artist
– Hand-punched work by Otti, including cushions and rugs

Opening Hours:
Visit me from 10 am to 5 pm on the first two weekends of May.
For private appointments, during the week or later in the year, please email me, I’d love you to visit.

I can’t wait to meet you. See you soon!
Love Faye xx

Faye’s final collection of 2022. Her award winning paintings bring joy on a winter’s day and have been exhibited at Saatchi Gallery, Glyndebourne, and Mall Galleries. Members of her mailing list can purchase these originals before they are exhibited, alongside her limited edition prints and greetings cards. You can also have a nose at her studio! Joining Faye this year is Nicola Gillis Ceramics. Open one weekend only (Friday 25 – Sunday 27 November) 10am-5pm.

I have been invited back to another exciting show this September as part of Artwave Festival in Lewes. This year, they will be celebrating the work of local artists and makers in the Sussex area.

The dates are:

September 11, September 12

September 18, September 19

September 25, September 26

To see full details, please click here.

Prints of some of my Blooming Brilliant paintings are being exhibited at this year’s Art Car Boot Fair. 

This exclusive event is invitation only and I am so chuffed that Bridgeman Editions invited me along. Bridgeman Editions is a new initiative from Bridgeman Images, the world's leading specialists in the distribution of fine art, cultural and historical media for reproduction.

Art Car Boot Fair

The first Art Car Boot Fair was held in London in 2004 with a line-up of around 30 artists including Gavin Turk, Abigail Lane, Mat Collishaw, Fiona Banner and Bob & Roberta Smith. The ACBF has been held every year since, except for 2005, and it currently takes place twice a year and features an invited line-up of 150 artists with Turner Prize winners pitching next to rising stars, fine artistsnext to street artists and everything in between. 

NEW ARTWORK BY THE AWARD-WINNING CONTEMPORARY ARTIST FAYE BRIDGWATER WILL BE EXHIBITED ONLINE BY GLYNDEBOURNE FROM 1 – 28 FEBRUARY 2021.

Ritual and Repetitions brings together sixteen new paintings created by Bridgwater during lockdown over the winter of 2020. All of the works are inspired by the landscape of the Sussex Downs around Brighton, where the artist lives and works.

The title of the exhibition is a reference to Bridgwater’s rigorous creative process, which follows a ritual of documenting, drawing and distilling. She starts every new painting by walking the countryside, revisiting places and views over days and weeks to record details that others might miss. In her studio, she installs numerous canvases across her walls and draws and writes directly onto each one, working across all the paintings at once and refining her ideas over time.

Along with fluorescent pinks and dazzling yellows, the new paintings feature a vibrant green, a colour Bridgwater has not been drawn to before, that is inspired by Glyndebourne. ‘The green reflects on seeing Glyndebourne’s gardens for the first time,’ Faye explains. ‘Anyone who visits Glyndebourne must be blown away by the approach. There are breathtaking views on all sides. Then you discover these beautiful grounds in the middle of the hills. Like a secret garden, full of colour and interesting natural shapes, even in the middle of winter. I’m lucky I can escape to my studio’, she says, ‘when others can’t go outside. I want to fill the room with wonderful bright colours when it’s grey out there and create joy through paint’.

The full exhibition can be viewed by clicking here.

Faye's first solo exhibition! Founder of the ever-growing Facebook group Brighton Skies, Faye spends her days looking up at the sky and out to sea.  Her paintings capture fleeting moments of light, playful movement and her emotional response to the landscape . The Sussex coastline and rolling South Downs are a constant influence. Click here for more details.

Weekends: 11am until 5pm; Weekdays: 10am until 2pm

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL VISITS WILL BE PRE-BOOKED PRIVATE TOURS EITHER IN PERSON OR ONLINE. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO BOOK AN APPOINTMENT

I am honoured to have been selected by Tabish Khan to exhibit in this year’s Discerning Eye exhibition. My sculpture, Escarpment, is a three piece ceramic landscape. It can be placed in different arrangements for an ever-changing sculpture. If you would like to see it, please click here.

The ING Discerning Eye is an annual exhibition of domestic sized works selected by six prominent selectors from the art world. Each year two artists, two collectors and two critics curate their own ‘mini exhibition’. This year our selectors are Dale Lewis, David Remfry RA, Beverley Knight, Mervyn Metcalf, Jo Baring and Tabish Khan.

My contemporary watercolour, Chapters, has been selected for the Society of Women Artists’ 159th Annual Open Exhibition. The painting is 140 miniature, watercolour studies with expressive mark-making through carbon paper. This work takes you on a journey with your eye darting from chapter to chapter. The simple line giving the viewer just a hint of the journey.  My friend and excellent artist, Steve Geliot’s description of the work: “Beautiful. I love the economic use of line and colour to say so much. It is beautifully calm and unfussy”

The exhibition is online, this year, and can be viewed by clicking here.

The Cowshed will be throwing open the doors with a stunning line-up of artists & makers, showing new, original artworks in a rural location. Plenty of outdoor space here for social distancing and all measures will be in place.

Come and be inspired by joyful abstract seascapes and expressive contemporary landscapes, find the beauty in handmade stoneware and bespoke glass for your home and explore the world of horses.

Treat yourself to an exquisite silk scarf, eclectic bag or precious jewellery, wonder at the fragile florals and quirky bronze sculptures, lose yourself in the garden amongst the rusted metal animals. Afterwards sit for a while outside and relax with tea and cake cake or something stronger from our mobile cafe/bar.

Open weekends between 11am and 5.30pm.

For more details, please click here.

 This year’s show is not be missed !

• Alice Sheridan: Contemporary abstract painting - www.alicesheridan.com

• Faye Bridgwater: Contemporary expressive landscapes - www.fayebridgwater.com

• Float Glass Design: Creative architectural glass - www.floatglassdesign.co.uk

• Garden Art & Sculpture: Metal garden sculptures - www.gardenartandsculpture.co.uk

• Henry Gundry-White:  Wax bronze box sculptures - www.instagram.com/baronvonvoltaire

• Huntress & Forager: Floral design installations - www.instagram.com/huntress_and_forager

• Jane Johansson: Contemporary equine Art - www.janejohansson.com

• Julian Warrender: Precious metal jewellery - www.julianjwjewellery.co.uk

• Nicola Gillis Ceramics: Handmade functional stoneware - www.nicolagillisceramics.co.uk

• Rebeccas Magner: Contemporary British landscape - www.rebeccamagner.co.uk

• Rubykite: Silk & cashmere art scarves - www.rubykite.co.uk

• Suzi Lowe: Abstract floral paintings - www.instagram.com/suzibythesee

• Te Amo Totes: Iconic handmade bags - www.instagram.com/te_amo_totes

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The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 208th show is the largest exhibition of its kind in the world, showcasing over 400 of the best contemporary water-based media paintings from around the globe. Since its founding in 1831 the RI has become universally recognised as one of the leading art institutes. 

Showing a diversity of styles and techniques, the exhibition is an annual survey of how contemporary artists are using this age-old medium and a great place to pick up vibrant, original works.

Watercolours on display will include my John Purcell Paper Prize winning work - 140 Monochrome Studies of Sussex.

For more details, please click here.

Open between 11am to 5pm.

Open until 7pm on Thursdays - 3 & 10 September

I am thrilled to announce that my drawing, Studying Murmurations, was selected from 4,756 artworks down to the final 70 works of art for the Derwent Art Prize on show at The Gallery @ Oxo Tower in London.

For more details read the Derwent Blog.