More than 400 artists and makers will open their houses as part of the 21st annual Artwave Festival.

Exhibitions in warehouses, galleries and makeshift venues throughout Lewes district include shows in Newhaven Ferry terminal and the former St Dunstan’s blind veterans home in Ovingdean.

Artwave’s open house policy allows visitors to meet artists in their studios, see makers in action and buy art direct from the producers at studio prices.

But with so many venues in the three-week long event it’s hard to know where to start. We’ve picked ten venues not to miss.

For more info visit www.artwavefestival.org.

 

• G F Sinclair Ltd, South Court Cottages, Morris Road, Lewes

National Portrait Gallery prize-nominated artist and former Eastbourne College of Art student Jean-Paul Tibbles exhibits reflective portraits of his daughter, Mary-Louise.

Mary-Louise will also show a series of work.

Weekdays, 9:30am to 3pm Weekends, 9:30am to 2pm.

 

• Jo Gibbs @ Dunrobin Bradford Road, Lewes, Lewes Jo Gibbs, specialist in UpCycling, converts old or waste materials into new products of better quality or higher value. She loves etching and has devised “Netching”, a process of transferring lace patterns onto overlooked items.

Weekends, noon to 5pm.

 

• Carolyn Trant Studio Lewes Constitutional Club, High Street Lewes, Lewes

New limited edition prints – including woodcuts, drypoints and collagraphs – by the book illustrator whose work is held in the V&A National Art Library, the British Library and the American Library of Congress.

Weekday, 10am to 5pm. Weekend, 10am to 5pm.

 

• Jonathan Barnes @ Dunrobin Bradford Road, Lewes

Another highlight at the Victorian house with six rooms open is Lewes-based artist Jonathan Barnes, who spent time observing a pack of wolves day and night to make a series of paintings and cardboard cut-outs.

Weekends, noon to 5pm.

 

• Holly House De Montfort Road, Lewes

Sussex-based fine artist Jessica Zoob takes inspiration from the interplay between man and nature. Her work, always popular with international collectors, will be shown alongside alabaster sculptures by Karl Smith.

Weekends, noon to 6pm.

 

• The Photographers Eye Railway Quay, Newhaven

Three photographers turn their lenses on Newhaven for this huge project documenting the town’s changing face. Among them is Carlotta Luke, whose large scale shots of the Marine Workshops chart the development of the workshops in the Railway Quay as they become a college.

Open daily. Call 01273 484351 to book a free viewing.

 

• Sarah Walton Keepers, Bo-peep Lane, Alciston, near Polegate, East Sussex

Walton is one of the country’s leading potters and has exhibited at Chelsea Flower Show four times. Clay is her favourite material and she is an expert making garden birdbaths, ceramic sculpture and tiles. August 23, 24, 30 and 31, 11am to 5pm.

 

• 19 Friars Walk, Lewes

Lewes-based James McCauley has photographed some of the biggest names in music, including snapping Jay-Z on his private jet and Amy Winehouse in her early days. He’s donating the profits from the sale of these prints to Starfish.

August 30 and 31, September 6 and 7, 10am to 5pm.

 

• Blind Veterans UK, The Chapel, Blind Veterans UK, Greenways, Ovingdean, Brighton

Skittles, shove a ha’penny, toad in the hole, wooden racing cars and boats are among the toys and games made by blind veterans at the former St Dunstan’s are for sale. An interactive sound performance piece by artist Dan Powell is also part of the exhibition.

Weekends, 10am to 4pm.

 

• Bentley Wood, Halland, Lewes Victoria Albuquerque’s work is presented in the outbuildings of her modernist home which featured in Country Life in the year it was built, 1938.

Serge Chermayeff, who was in partnership with Erich Mendelsohn when they designed and built the De La Warr Pavilion, designed Bentley Wood, which, with its Christopher Tunner landscape, is considered an influential design classic.

August 24 and 25, August 30 and 31, noon until 5pm.