The cycle of life
Rebecca Youssefi’s paintings are mesmerizingly beautiful. Having just finished an exhibition at One Café on London Road, luckily for us, writes HOT’s Zelly Restorick, another is just beginning at The Electric Palace cinema.
Rebecca Youssefi’s paintings are mesmerizingly beautiful. Having just finished an exhibition at One Café on London Road, luckily for us, writes HOT’s Zelly Restorick, another is just beginning at The Electric Palace cinema.
An important step towards finding further evidence to back his theory that the Battle of Hastings took place in Crowhurst Valley has been taken by local historian, Nick Austin, who says he has located the site of a buried Norman longboat, which must have formed part of the invasion fleet, HOT’s Nick Terdre reports.
The First Sight Gallery is up the High Street, on and on again, beyond the Electric Palace. It shows local artists, the display is always changing with different styles and new artists discovered. For Christmas, new work is being shown, and HOT reporter, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, went to do a bit of early Christmas shopping.
Alastair Hendy likes old. He has restyled, refurbished a Tudor house into a home and a Georgian building into a spanking new, creaky very brown, old fashioned Home Store. As Hendy was preparing to open his immaculately styled Old Town Hastings Tudor house for Christmas HOT reporter, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went to find out more about the man behind the shop and his styled parallel universe.
HOT columnist Sean O’Shea interviews Hastings musician, artist and instrument maker Andy Dennis. He talks with Andy about his music making, his vivid pictures of the Stade and his love of Hastings.