The Guardian newspaper has been bringing art to us during lockdown with the Great British Art Tour. Featured artists include Turner and Hepworth and work by Romany Mark Bruce, an Encounters Artist, was featured recently. His Brighton’s Aids memorial is described as “A great accomplishment by Bruce, and a permanent legacy of James Ledward, who sadly […]
The IG Residence has an objective to strengthen and consolidate existing connections between Encounters’ artists. Many of you have had an opportunity to share joyful, interesting and unusual experiences during our exhibitions, thereby creating new artistic relationships. The IG residence will provide opportunities to enrich existing relationships The resident artist will choose one or two […]
Normally the house is very busy during the days that we are open for the Artists Open House. Not this year. The pandemic restrictions mean that only five visitors can come and we have a booking system so that each has 40 minutes to enjoy the work. Photographer David Barreiro joined us today and her […]
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Our show explores feelings, perceptions, fears and hopes of Encounters’ artists as words like Pandemic, Lockdown and Quarantine were repeated incessantly, becoming the Zeitgeist of our times. The show features Richard Bagguley’s Tiempo de la Peste, Marion Brandis’ Time of Corona, Linda Lieberman’s Covid Moment, Carlos Sanchez and Mariana Teixeira’s Lockdown jewellery, Romany Bruce’s Nature […]
For Covid reasons we have a booking system this year to ensure that only six people will be in our Open House at the same time and no one will be waiting outside in the cold! Book here (its free) for a 40 minute visit time: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/encounters-spring-lockdown-exhibition-christmas-arti-shop-tickets-132800498867 Click Here to Book
Born in Ireland 1960, Romany came to England in 1978 to study law. After living in Dallas, Texas, he settled in London, moving to Brighton in 1989. Romany developed an interest in photography, in particular photographing modern buildings, and quite by chance, he was given the opportunity to try his hand at sculpting. He had […]
For this special exhibition in Encounters Art Space in 2019 the curator, Miladys Parejo, wrote: Earlier paintings ‘From The Font’ are shown with ‘The Japans’ series as they have a shared intrinsic narrative that combines as a single body of work. During the autumn of 2018 Romany travelled in Japan and he found that […]
Encounters Art Space invites you to view a new collection of paintings by Romany Mark Bruce Admission (free) is by tickets only – 23rd, 24th and 25th October at 12 Langdale Road, Hove BN3 4HN Admission will be a maximum of 4 people every 40 minutes. To reserve your time slot copy the link below […]
Marion writes :”Embrace Your World is a personal work, but I hope it has universal meaning. It is about drawing strength from your surroundings, from what grounds you, what sustains you in your personal environment. In my talk I will show how it was made, from first ideas and drawings to the back-breaking work of […]
Artist Linda Lieberman writes: I am thrilled to have my work integrated in both this unique show and the accompanying limited edition of the 10th anniversary book, showing over 67 international artists from 17 different countries.
Only for the first weekend enjoy delightful lunches and snacks by Ana Gomez, a Venezuelan Chef who is now the talk of the town in Paris. 4th and 5th May only!
Evanthia Tsekoura will demonstrate how to prepare two vegetarian dishes from the town of Kymi on the Greek Island of Evia. The demonstration will take about an hour. The starter is a dish called “rodini” – a cheese-bread that is made of yogurt, olive oil, flour and feta cheese. This dish has been very popular […]
Deyanira Ortega Giron will lead a one hour art class at 3pm on Sunday afternoons for children and adults. The class will begin by Deyanira giving a short talk about art, followed by warm-up art exercises. Then techniques for drawing will be introduced before participants make and share a creative artwork. Materials will be supplied and […]