The Claremont is back in it's fourth year as an Open House and proud to be showing one of the biggest and most impressive collections of contemporary art in the Festival.

We hope the combination of over 30 artists contributing stunning new work in a wide variety of mediums throughout this charming Victorian building and walled garden, plus the chance to sneak a peak at Brighton and Hove's first five-star guest accomodation, will make this an opportunity not to be missed!

During May, we are open every weekend 11-6pm EXCEPT Sunday the 22nd but we are open on the Bank Holiday Monday (30th)

The Claremont, Second Avenue, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex BN3 2LL Tel: +44 (0)1273 735161 Fax: +44 (0)1273 736836


Sue Blandford

I am interested in poetic juxtapositions of objects, which are imbued with both their practical uses and their symbolic evocation. The magic in the seemingly mundane or everyday.

I am concerned with paradoxes of light and dark, peace and unease. Also relationships between man made objects or interventions in natural situations.

I never go anywhere without a camera looking for photographs in their own right but mainly for material for paintings. Objects in context but slightly out of place. I am interested in what happens in the golden 30 minutes in the evening when the light is low and transformative giving glimpses of something other. When objects glow out of dark spaces or as with glasshouses, become beacons filled with mystery and seemingly inner light.

My work is a visual diary of observations that chime with internal states or life phases.


www.sueblandford.com