Using a mix of my imagination, life drawings and photographic references, I often borrow elements from history and folklore to explore what it means to be a woman in the 21st Century. The women I paint are at ease with themselves and not generally paying attention to the viewer. I want my women to be challenging to look at, confrontational even, which is why I often paint them face on and close up…

I make bold, quirky and apparently playful works often carry a brooding gritty undertone. By employing an agglomeration of printmaking, painting, collage, stitching onto a variety of surfaces my work is a lively regurgitation of current obsessions. My most recent output follows on from works concerning the vulnerability of existence in the natural world to the “Museumification” of artefacts, relic…

Hastings based community arts collective. We offer art and craft workshops, organise parades, make large and small scale installations and public celebrations of all kinds. We can make costumes for performance, decorate indoor and outdoor venues for events and celebrations, etc. We are very experienced working in schools and other settings with children and adults of all abilities. All our artists…

Arts worker, prop maker, costume, set design, events, education, workshop leader.

Rebel Gallery was established in Hastings in 2004 to exhibit and sell the work of local artists Jon and Suzanne Wilhelm. The gallery exhibits original paintings, limited edition prints and photographs by our two owner/artists.