Featured exhibition

From one bay to another: Franco-British watercolour exhibitions

Fri 25 May – Sun 24 June, 10am-5pm (closed on Tuesdays)

Rye Art Gallery

See the results of a year-long Franco-British collaboration between artists Bob Greenhalf from Rye Bay and Noëlle le Guillouzic from Baie de Somme. The exhibition portrays the two bays with their differences and similarities throughout the seasons.

Turtle Fine Art

More paintings of the two bays by French watercolourist Noëlle Le Guillouzic and birds of the Rye Bay area sculpted in bronze.

Exhibitions

Plenty More Fish?

Fri 25 – Mon 28 May, 11am-4pm, Fish Café, Tower Street

Display by the Marine Society and Sussex Seasearch of the marine life around our shores, with a special introductory taste of conservation-grade flavoursome fish for £1.

Peter Greenhalf photographic exhibition

Fri 25 – Mon 28 May, 10am-5pm, Avocet, Tram Road, Rye Harbour (opposite the village shop). Tel 01797 223005.

Award-winning landscape photographer Peter Greenhalf exhibits black and white and colour, fine art photographs of the Rye Bay area.

Our Changing Shore photo exhibition

The Place, Camber Sands, Fri 30 March to end of June, 11am-8pm

Barry Yates has managed the nature reserve at Rye Harbour for over 20 years, and has seen the shore of Rye Bay in all its moods. Proceeds from photo sales go to the Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.

Local interest

Camber Castle open to visitors

Sat 26 to Mon 28 May, 2pm-5pm

£2 adults, £1 concs/children, free for members of English Heritage and Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. Parking at Brede Lock car park.

 

Martello Bookstore

Fri 25 – Mon 28 May, High Street

Rye High Street’s favourite bookstore will display a selection of wildlife books, including the newly published Sussex Bird Report.

 

Fairlight

Fri 25 – Mon 28 May and summer weekends, 2pm-5pm

See France, some say, from the tower of St Andrew’s Church, £1 per person, steep steps.