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She is one of three artists taking part in the Interior/Exterior exhibition of paintings and sculptural ceramics at the gallery, in Tarrant Street, until February 23.

Just as the paintings show outside and inside views of buildings, the ceramics are for interiors and exteriors, too.

Among Maggie's work on display is a painting of Clifton Road, Worthing (pictured) and the inside of a renovated house.

Having trained as a designer, Maggie, originally from London, worked in Brighton and Worthing until 1998, when she began a painting course at Northbrook College. She graduated in 2003 with a first class BA honours degree in fine art.

In 2001, she won the student prize at the Chichester Open Art Exhibition and a year later was shortlisted for the Churchill Society Award for Fine Art Painting.

She says: "My work continues to centre on discarded and broken things and buildings. Some of the most recent paintings are of abandoned buildings in the process of change. Walls crack and surfaces peel off, this process interests me."

During the last few years, Maggie has developed several arts projects for local schools and her work can be found in private collections, offices and hospitals.

Also featured in the exhibition will be abstract paintings by Anja Niedring, from Brighton, who draws inspiration from the Sussex landscape and is developing her own impressionistic style, and pottery by Chris Lewis, who is based at the pottery at South Heighton, near Newhaven.