Pelham House Hotel

Pelham House is a four-star 16th Century Town House Hotel in East Sussex. Restored to create a stylish venue it combines elegance and history, and is just 10mins from Brighton.

Pelham House Restaurant | Conference Centre | Function Rooms | Wedding Venue

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Late Night Shopping at Pelham House

Late Night Shopping at Pelham House
Thursday 1st December 2012
5.30pm – 8.30pm




ART AND CRAFT FAIR

Come and find unique and original gifts for your loved ones at Pelham House. Enjoy a glass of mulled wine, a mince pie & Carol Singing from
Paddock Singers, browse our stalls and soak up the festive atmosphere.

Original art works by
Flo Snook, Etchings, linocuts and woodcuts from bip-Art Printmakers, Jewelry and gifts from local artists, Gracie Collins and Beatrice Von Preussen, Fine Bone China by Belen Gomez, Cards and linocuts from Teresa Winchester and original Paper-cuts form Sylvie Howitt

Something for everyone and the perfect way to start the Yuletide Season!
Free Entry

PECKSNIFFS PERFUME EVENING

You are warmly invited to a fragrant trail through the world of perfumery by
trained nose and
fragrance expert, Nancy Meiland. Nancy will present a vignette into both the history of perfumery and our often underused sense of scent. Festive fizz, mulled wine and canapés will welcome you in out of the frosty air to this illuminating evening. Discover simple, home spun ideas to fragrance your home this Christmas. Plus an opportunity to browse through a range of products from the Sussex based perfume house, Pecksniff's all at a 15% discount.
£10.00 per person please book your session, first is at 6pm and second is at 7.30pm.
Book your tickets with reception 01273 488600

Wednesday 9 November 2011

New Art Exhibitions at Pelham House

John Armstrong and Teresa Winchester
17th November 2011- 3rd January 2012

Private View 6-8pm 20th November 2011 for invited guests


John Armstrong
Four lines have evolved in John Armstrong’s work - landscapes, abstracts, biblical narratives and pictorial church sign-boards. Showing at Pelham House are his landscapes and abstracts. The landscapes are mostly based on the South Downs, bringing out their underlying abstract shapes. The Abstract pieces also on show, start from New Testament passages that express a value or an incidental meaning. They are designed to allow colour, geometry and symbols to speak for the subject. He wants to show that this kind of religious painting can show a better understanding, that a colour field for meditation seems more useful than an illustration.

John Armstrong (b. 1937) studied at Swindon, Walthamstow and Brighton Colleges of Art. He taught art and craft in schools, worked in museums and at the Exhibitions Unit, University of Brighton. Work can be seen locally and nationally. Paintings are in the Royal Collection, private collections in England, Belgium, Singapore, Australia, the collections of East Sussex County Council, Nuffield Foundation and Brighton Museum collection. He has twice had one-man shows at Hove Museum, the Grange Gallery Rottingdean, and St Raphael Gallery, London. As well as group shows in Britain, he has also participated in exhibitions in Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, and Austria.

Teresa Winchester
Teresa Winchester is a painter and printmaker and perhaps foremost a storyteller, as she explains “As a child I loved to curl up in a chair with a book and read of magical worlds, brave deeds and princesses. The only pastime I enjoyed more was to draw the pictures these stories suggested. And I still love doing this.” Stories continue to inspire her work. Some of the images emerge from the well known tales such as the Red Shoes, but others drift into the artists mind quite unexpectedly, often as she’s falling asleep!

Teresa Winchester lives and works in Sussex and participates in the Brighton Open House every May during the Brighton Festival as part of the Fiveways group. The relief prints are produced on a wonderful old Columbian press in the bip-Art printmaking studio in Brighton. Apart from being an accomplished printmaker, Teresa also paints in oils and acrylics