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 25 May 2011

New Art Exhibitions at Pelham House

Rosie Birtwhistle - New Memories
Lucy Owen - Heirlooms

2nd June – 12th July 2011

Rosie Birtwhistle

Rosie Birtwhistle paintings have always been about pattern. Not just pattern as ornament, but because patterns make good symbols for our complex lives: repetition, rhythm, harmonies and balance, and then broken patterns, fragments and connections.

Previously Rosie has explored such ideas as mazes, gardens cityscapes with surreal qualities. Recently Rosie has made abstract developments of these representational pictures, offering the narrative without specific imagery. This is the first showing of the new abstract paintings.

The work is detailed and intimate, inviting the viewer into the pictures to experience them as puzzles or as meditational games.

Rosie Birtwhistle studied at Wimbledon and Brighton Art Colleges and at Sussex and Reading Universities and has widely exhibited internationally for many years. Rosie lives and works in East Grinstead.

Lucy Owen

In her first solo exhibition in Lewes, emerging artist Lucy Owen presents us with the nostalgia of the future. Whilst living in South Africa, Owen was, for the first time, looking at Britain as an outsider - an outsider in a very specific post-colonial context. Alongside this new phenomenon there was South Africa's post-apartheid obsession with nation-building and constructing a new identity - it is intrinsic, it is simply not possible to live there and be a-political. On her return to England, Owen found herself an alien in a familiar yet foreign land, and she was at once fascinated and appalled by the apathy of her English peers.

Saturday 14 May 2011

Remember of bring your slippers!!

Well it's been another busy week at the hotel, a very busy Tuesday with every conference and function room being used for meetings and/or private parties. We were certainly all kept on our toes.

Thursday saw the fitters move into the Terrace Room who spent all day fitting a marvellous new carpet. As you enter the room your feet now feel like they're "floating" and bouncing along as you walk. So please remember to bring your slippers with you if you want to pop in and have a peek, lol!

The first event to be held in the Terrace Room with the new carpet was on Friday night where the hotel hosted a Spanish Tapas and Wine Dinner. Taking on board the very "social" concept that is tapas, guests were seated all-together across 2 banqueting tables and enjoyed platters of tapa matched to a range of Spanish wines.

The hotel holds wine dinners at various times throughout the year and so keep an eye on the website for details of future events.

Monday 2 May 2011

April's Ending

Well here we are now at the begining of May... where has the first quarter of the year gone?

Pelham House ended April with lots of celebrations......

Firstly we had the Royal Wedding on Friday. The hotel entrance was decked out with red, white and blue bunting and union flags flapped away in the breeze. Screening the happy occasion in both the Tom Paine Room and The Chamber Room, guests sat happily cheering on as HRH William and Catherine said their "I Do's". Other guests enjoyed the hotel's "Royal Afternoon Tea" outside on the garden terrace. Later on in the evening The Terrace Room hosted an 80th birthday party where guests partied and danced the night away.

Saturday saw another wedding celebration at the hotel. Having been married in a local church the happy couple arrived with their guests just before 3pm and took drinks on the garden terrace. The Chamber had been deced out with a yellow colour scheme, which picked up the colour of the Chelsea football club away strip. The tables had been named after famous football players, all in keeping with the happy couples love of the sport. After enjoying a sumptuous wedding breakfast which included a Herbed Lamb main course, the wedding party was joined by evening guests who made the most of the evening and energetically danced away until midnight.

And... the hotel is very pleased to announce its own reason to celebrate. John, the restaurant manager, and Lindsey, the events manager, announced their engagement on Friday. John "did the deed" and got down on bended knee on Brighton Beach and asked Lindsey for her hand in marriage. Of course she said yes and so is now sporting a dazzling engagment ring of a solitare diamond set in luxurious white gold. All the staff at the hotel send their best wishes to John and Lindsey. Congraulatons to you both.