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KATY SLEIGHT’S STEYNING:
SEEING WITH AN ILLUSTRATOR’S EYE
An exhibition of watercolour paintings
of Steyning and the locality
by Katy Sleight
These are beautifully
executed and highly individual paintings. Look more closely and there
are marvellous stories revealed in the smallest scale. To help you to
see all the intriguing detail in the pictures, the Museum
is providing magnifying glasses.
Katy has lived most of
her life locally and has absorbed the feel and essence of Steyning,
which she portrays with an illustrator’s eye. She has also chosen
objects and images from the Museum alongside several from her own
family collection, to set her paintings in context. This is much
more than a display of watercolours alone.
Katy’s
versatility is demonstrated by some of her book illustration work.
Her unique book ‘Devilish Tricks and Deadly Sins’, an
amazing version of Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, is
included in the exhibition. The Museum is providing visitors with the
opportunity to see and enjoy the full range of her illustrations by
turning over to fresh pages of this volume every few days.
The artist says of her
work that it records the present with an awareness of the past,
combining history and imagination with close observation and fine
brushwork. She finds inspiration in the trees, ancient stones and
brickwork, old sheds and outbuildings - depicting the plants and small
creatures that make their homes in and around them, together with
something of the people who have been there before.
Once seen, Katy
Sleight's pictures haunt the memory and leave you with visions and
insights which will change the way you see our ordinary world forever.
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Everyone has a Story to Tell . . .
Do you live locally or have Steyning connections?
Help Steyning Museum to record our past.
Did you experience
wartime in Steyning - the Land Army, the Home Guard, the British
Resistance? Were you educated in Steyning and have memories of the
Grammar School? Did you travel on the Horsham Flyer? Do you have
information about the market, local farms or traders? Do you remember
the Silver Jubilee celebrations and the carnival floats? Have you been
involved with local sports clubs or any of the dozens of local clubs
and societies? Did you spend your childhood in Steyning or were you an
evacuee here?
There are a myriad of
topics and tales to tell. We want to hear from you. Our interviews will
be informal and hopefully enjoyable.
If you feel you may be
able to help, please make contact. Leave your name and telephone number
with a brief idea of your topic at the Museum for Anne Ketteman, or
leave a message for her on telephone number 01903 813333.
You can also contact Anne Ketteman via email:
contact@steyningmuseum.org.uk
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