The eagerly awaited Lewes Contemporary Art Fair is back, displaying affordable work by some of the best artists in the Sussex region.

Many of the artists on show have won prestigious awards and the standard of work this summer is at an all-time high.

It features Scottish artist June Frickleton, who begins each of her sumptuous oil paintings with a composition in mind. As each painting progresses it takes on its own life-form. It is an organic process.

Her paintings consist of various shapes which have evolved over the years to form a distinctive visual vocabulary.

Frickleton graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. In 1991, she won a Hungarian Government Scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Art in Budapest.

She recognises her time immersed in a different culture was precious to the development of her art. Each painting is created with a reduced palette, allowing a single colour to dominate the canvas.

The painterly surface is important to Frickleton. She works it up, finishing parts with varnish or turpentine, adds and subtracts paint, and leaves some sections of the canvas bare. This process takes quite a long time.

Her works are untitled since she is reluctant to coerce viewers into specific interpretations.

She would rather their own senses guide their responses. Frickleton does not think her paintings need a reference point.

"If they make people react," she says, "whether it is favourable or not, that's a good thing."

For inquiries call 01273 484214 or 487951 or email junefrickleton@hotmail.com