Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water

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Sussex has a unique sense of place. Its distinctive chalk-cliff coastline and the rolling hills of the South Downs have inspired artists for centuries. From some of our greatest landscape artists like Constable and Turner to contemporary artists working in the area today, this exhibition allowed you to discover Sussex as a place of creativity, exploration, retreat and alternative lifestyles. This spring the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), armed with a little trowel, unearths lesser-known works from the oeuvre of one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, John Constable. Ravilious was a British printmaker, watercolourist, designer, book illustrator and an official war artist during WWII. He grew up in Sussex and is best known for his modernist depictions of the South Downs and the English pastoral landscape. As a war artist, he toured military bases to produce his work. Ravilious sadly became the first war artist to die in active service when the plane he was on went missing off Iceland in 1942. The marine biodiversity of South East England" (PDF). The Wildlife Trusts South East Marine Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2012 . Retrieved 5 September 2011.

The renowned landscape painter John Constable described this location, looking out over the Fulking Escarpment and the Sussex Weald, as ‘the grandest view in the world.’Five settlements within Mid Sussex were subject to the survey. The Historic Character Assessment Report for each settlement can be viewed below. Office for National Statistics. "Census 2011 result shows increase in population of the South East" . Retrieved 4 December 2012. Arun, and its tributary the western River Rother: source of Arun near Horsham; entering the sea at Littlehampton

A beautifully illustrated look at how the Sussex landscape has inspired creativity across the centuries, reassessing the rich artistic lives and work of British artists and writers connected with the area. A classic composition is to shoot from the beach towards the harbour arm, where the lighthouse makes a great focal point. It’s important to capture the waves at the decisive moment they hit the harbour wall. Sometimes the best shots here are taken when the light breaks through the clouds and illuminates part of the scene.Among the many contemporary artists in the exhibition, including Tania Kovats, Jem Southam and Andy Goldsworthy, is Susan Collins, whose newly commissioned video work Dell Quay (2022) is replete with ideas relating to surveillance and the often fraught relationship between technology and the landscape. Images from a webcam set up at a small West Sussex harbour are transmitted to the gallery, but update incredibly slowly, over the six-hour span of a tidal cycle. Even though the image is “live”, this durational aspect, coupled with a low resolution, gives the work a painterly and meditative quality that slows down the looking process. Primary Urban Areas and Travel to Work Area Indicators: Updating the evidence base on cities". Department for Communities and Local Government. 20 April 2010. Archived from the original on 18 August 2010 . Retrieved 24 April 2012. Sussex has two islands, both of which are located in Chichester Harbour. Thorney Island and neighbouring Pilsey Island. Thorney Island is separated from the mainland by a narrow channel called the Great Deep, while Pilsey Island has in recent years it has become joined to Thorney by accumulating sand. With an impressive return rate of over 60% of participants, this statistic speaks volumes about the exceptional quality of the experiences on offer. Over his seventy-year career, Dennis Creffield continuously reinvented his style. His artistic journey began at 16 in classes with artist David Bomberg at Borough Polytechnic. His classmates, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, were also to become renowned artists and were all part of the Borough group. His work was heavily influenced by Bomberg, but also Cézanne, Turner and William Blake.

Possibly the most famous visitors to embrace the Sussex idyll were Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, who along with Grant’s lover, the writer David Garnett, moved to Charleston farmhouse near Lewes in 1916. Following the loss of millions to Dutch Elm Disease, Sussex has the majority of the UK's mature English Elms. [39] The implications of the Coast to Capital Strategic Economic Plan and the Greater Brighton City Deal Shakespeares Landscapes Ltd is a local family run business with a wealth of experience in creating beautifully landscaped gardens. Established in 1995, Shakespeares Landscapes provides high quality bespoke landscaping services to residential and commercial clients in and around west Sussex.Dulwich Picture Gallery marks the centenary of John Piper's birth with a major exhibition devoted to his formative years' Dawson, Alan (1992). The Relative Hills of Britain. Milnthorpe: Cicerone Press. ISBN 1-85284-068-4. Archived from the original on 21 September 2010. Sussex has three main geographic sub-regions, each orientated approximately east to west. In the south-west of the county lies the fertile and densely populated coastal plain. North of this lie the rolling chalk hills of the South Downs, beyond which lies the well-wooded Sussex Weald.