Gallery spring show bursting with colour

Three artists with contrasting styles and techniques will make up the exhibition of new paintings.

Rue Asher is a watercolour artist, who since graduating from Brighton University in the 1990s has had her work featured in numerous prestigious exhibitions, including The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, The Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and The Discerning Eye (Mall Galleries, London).

Far from turning out wishy-washy watercolours, Rue has a sharp eye for contemporary culture.

Jonathan Smith grew up in the Outer Hebrides but has been a Lewes resident for many years.

However, it is his island background which continues to inspire his paintings. He has been returning to the same square mile of coastline on the Isle of Lewis for the last 25 years, drawing and painting beaches, cliffs, crofts and inlets in all their changing moods.

He exhibits successfully at UK galleries and was recently selected for the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition.

Katherine Sollohub's large life-affirming canvases capture scenes from her day-to-day life, with their bright colour and fondly observed detail.

Ordinary objects on a windowsill, a pattern in a curtain, details like these are deployed in order to create a joyous vision of the ordinary spaces we occupy. She lives in Shoreham and has exhibited in the London Biennale.

HQ Spring Show runs from February 23 to March 16 at the HQ Gallery, 15 St John Street, Lewes. Open Tuesdays to Saturdays 10am to 5pm.