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Dion Salvador Lloyd shows his work at David Donno’s Naked Eye Gallery

On a bright, but chill spring afternoon I drive to Hove to meet gallery owner David Donno at artist Dion Salvador Lloyd’s studio. The plan is that we will look at some work, both finished and in progress, prior to Dion’s one-man show at David’s Naked Eye Gallery in Hove during the Brighton Festival.
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A community archive shows what happens with a little people power

Rattling the Cage is a community archive of documents, textiles, photography and film used in the ‘Save Omar’ campaign, which has been curated by Louise Purbrick. It demonstrates the power of improvisation.
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O’Donnell: From The Martyrdom of St. Matthew (Caravaggio)

The Bellis Gallery is a very welcome addition to the gallery scene here in Brighton, which is oddly bereft of decent gallery spaces to exhibit the amazing talent we are blessed with here.
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Known for his vibrant palette and screens peppered with stark graphics, Ben Allen’s new solo show Life, Death and Other Colour in Between, explores the realms of the unplanned, plays with mishaps, and unfolds sublime images that reflect on life itself. He crystallizes the ephemeral elements of weathered commercial billboards by resuscitating peeled images from multi-layered posters, and blending in fusions of intense colours to produce striking compositions.

Allen has also created his own boudoir installation room upstairs at the gallery; featuring lavish wallpaper, cushions, a coffee table and many more items from his interior design collection. And outside at the back, he’ll be inviting you to take part and make art on a massive canvas.
Richard Branson is just one of the growing legions of fans who love his hectic, playfully intense and make-believe works.
Ben Allen: Life, Death and Other Colour in Between, Ink_d Gallery, North Road, 6 February to 1 March.