Event A04: Pictures in the Porch + 100

Catherine Barnes offers an exhibition of 20 paintings in the porch, plus 100 others in the store. Choose two from a catalogue in the car port. You sit; we bring; we hang; you look. A unique opportunity to spend time looking at your choice. Unlimited street parking at weekend. Families welcome.

Catherine was a student at Folkestone School of Art and Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in the 1960s and subsequently at Goldsmiths’ College, London. She has exhibited widely since the 1980s in England and Europe as well as locally. Catherine has also been a visiting lecturer at the University of Southampton and a visiting art historian and tutor at Southampton City Art Gallery.

“It was during lockdown in 2021, when nothing was open, I found a way to hold a Covid safe exhibition in my porch where individuals could view about 20 paintings and another collection in the display rack. Instead of looking at images on tiny screens it was rewarding at that time to enable people to experience the real paintings – the building up of an oil painting or the texture of an etching. I found it unforgettable how, after lockdown, people reacted.

“Visitors in 2026 can experience a selection of work in the porch, then sit and choose a few of the 100 or more paintings, prints or drawings (from photographs) and look at the real thing in the garden (in the Studio if wet). The work will be arranged in categories: Landscapes, Seascapes, Greek & Roman Studies and Figurative.

“We are a 20-minute walk from the Cathedral, good wheelchair access, with limited parking in the drive on Friday, but unlimited parking in Cedar Drive at the weekend.”

107 Cedar Drive, Chichester, PO19 3EL Look out for the bunting.

Website www.catherinebarnes.com and phone 07977 516730.