Around November 2016 I was walking past the Phoenix Studio, and noticed paintings of coloured discs in the gallery window. It was an exhibition by Patrick O’Donnell, who has his studio there. The dark, square canvases with the coloured circles are attractive. In a pure sense of colour: orange and deep blue are a nice…

4 May 2017. Painter Jake Wood Evans is exhibiting at the YMCA HQ in Hove as part of Open House this month, and has also shown at the Pheonix and INK’d galleries in Brighton over recent years. His work is an intriguing blend of traditional and new painting. “Wood-Evans evocative works create a crackled tension,…