ARTEL is a group of professional artists who collaborate to exhibit their work whilst establishing a dynamic community. Working in the South Downs area, each artist has developed a unique and informed practice. The artwork from this covers a rich and diverse range of subjects and media shared through an annual show in Chichester at the Oxmarket Contemporary gallery.
2026 ++
Oxmarket Contemporary
13-25 October 2026
Opening times: 10am-4.30pm Tues-Sat; 12-4pm Sun;
(closed Mon).
St Andrews Court, off East Street, Chichester, PO19 1YH
2026 Exhibiting Artists++
2025 ++ THE SPACE BETWEEN
Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery
30 Sept - 12 October 2025
New work was created within the context of the artists ongoing practice that also considered this theme. Research resulted in final pieces that were provocative, playful, and profound, in drawing, sculpture, and painting.THE SPACE BETWEEN - 2025
Linda Nevill MA Fine Art (University of Chichester)
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For ‘The Space Between’, Linda is showing a selection of her dreamscapes, made to depict the half-awake/half-asleep state we can all experience. Where the mind and imagination meander with free rein, between full wakefulness and deep sleeping.
She works slowly, and meditatively in mixed media, beginning with ink on wet paper, enjoying the happenstance of outcomes. Then Linda builds the images by layering with acrylics, gouache, pens and stitching on paper. Each piece is only loosely planned before starting and evolves intuitively as she works. The stitching evokes a sense of holdfast, a cleaving to reality, stabilising fantasy.
Her drawing aims to imply the floating and colliding of thoughts and ideas that follow the healing depths of sleep that Shakespeare so beautifully describes:
“Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.”
- William Shakespeare, from ‘Macbeth’
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