It is the last bank holiday weekend before Christmas here in the UK so today is a holiday –  but whilst North America was enduring Hurricane Irene, I will continue  wondering around town dodging the occasional shower by going into people’s houses, some belonging to artist friends, others artist strangers, enjoying, mostly their art and the occasional glass of wine. It is Lewes’s annual Artwave festival when artists open their houses, or other people’s houses, to display their work – it was in their gardens too. Lewes, of course, as you can see in the photo, is a work of art in its own right.

I love it when art comes to meet you rather than you always having to go to see it. If you are anywhere near Lewes come and take a look – it is being held over the next two weekends too.

I was in celebrationary mood as this weekend was an arty one for me too – three of my poems got published. Here are the links if you would like to catch up with them:

Wrestling Angels at Every Day Poets
 Every Day Poets
www.everydaypoets.com 

and my two latest Fibonacci poems in The Fib Review – see Links:

The Fib Review Issue #10, a journal of Fibonacci poetry, has been posted to the Muse-Pie Press website. www.musepiepress.com. Click on The Fib Review to see the incredible poetry from an international community of poets from Canada, Italy, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. We hope you enjoy!

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If you walk down any one of our small winding streets and lanes here in Lewes in the south of England, you just can’t avoid it. You might not be expecting it but it is everywhere – that thing called Art.

….and they are inviting you in to look around.

there were photogrtaphs of our local brewery in this house…..

…….drawings of naked people in this pub which you can admire whilst you have lunch or a couple of pints.

……and here, a painter and a photographer, two of Lewes’ best,  even give you a cup of tea and, if you are very lucky, a butterfly bun.

…in fact, this Art Wave business is everywhere.

The local artists’ cafe and studios may have left the dog outside but they have put on a vigorous exhibition by some of the local artists who work here….

…and round the corner at the former iron foundary there is another exhibition…..

..this time of landscape paintings.

Lewes is a good place to live if you are an artist who have an interest in art and it is quite a lot of fun if you are a poet too. As I walked round town yesterday popping into the various venues to look at the art or just to do what many people do, have a nose around other people’s houses, I felt glad that this was my home. On my journey,  I also bumped into a number of friends and stood on street corners gossiping in the sunshine. There is nowhere quite like Lewes.

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