PICTURES: Arts and crafts festival
The nine-day event is an annual highlight, with the festival now in its 48th year.
On display until Sunday are beautiful jewellery, greetings cards, wonderful needlework, original paintings, mosaics and decorative ironwork.
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Hide AdLinda Rockall, Worthing Churches Homeless Projects’ chairman of trustees, opened the festival on Saturday and there was a dedication service at the Brunswick Road church on Sunday.
Profits will benefit local and national charities, including the homeless projects. The festival has been able to donate up to £1,000 to selected charities in previous years.
For Jackie Gillespie, chairman of the organising committee, the event is a family affair. She creates handmade cards and boxes, her husband Malcolm is showing his striking artwork and daughter-in-law Cara has a stall featuring jewellery, hand screenprinted bags, mugs and other accessories.
Photographer David Curtis’ only picture on display, Storm Wave – Brighon Seafront, was a photo on canvas that sold late on Sunday for £85.
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Hide AdJenny Sharpe has pet portraits, which are coloured pencil on board, her Sussex Scenes notelets and three-dimensional pebble pictures on display. Crafts include jewellery by Loraine Matten, hand-knitting designs by Valerie Owens from Valerian Designs, quilts and bags by Paula Davies, and mosaic and glass pieces by Deborah Fleming.
Artistic blacksmith Nigel J. Beverton is one of the new exhibitors at the festival, with works including metal mistletoe, a spider and individual basket brackets.
There will be a free concert at 1pm on Saturday, with a retiring collection. The talented Lynda Lyne will perform classical and jazz music on piano, clarinet and recorder.
The exhibition will be open 10am to 1.30pm daily until Friday, then 10am to 5.30pm on Saturday, and 12pm to 4pm on Sunday. Admission is free and a catalogue is available at 20p. All payments are cash only.