Our ArtSpace celebrates the work of creatives within the local community. With several different artists and exhibitions on rotation throughout the year, we display a variety of work and mediums, so there is something for everyone to enjoy

Visit the ArtSpace at South Mill Arts this August to see the work of Kevin Lewis and Jo Walls!

In Signals & Rhythms, Kevin Lewis explores how colour, repetition, and structure can communicate emotion without narrative. These abstract works operate like transmissions; pulses of feeling, thought, and memory coded in line, curve, and hue.

The paintings are built from layered bands of colour, sometimes saturated and joyful, sometimes muted and grounded. Each composition holds a rhythm: a steady internal pulse shaped by intuition, experience, and mood. The works suggest both message and movement, like signals sent from within, received in the quiet space between looking and feeling.

Lewis is particularly interested in liminal spaces, moments of transition where things are not fixed, where clarity and uncertainty exist at once. His work sits in this threshold: between control and instinct, between silence and expression, between surface and depth. Though deeply personal, these pieces invite open interpretation; they are made to be felt rather than explained.

In Signals & Rhythms, colour and form are more than visual, they become a way of being present in the spaces where words fall short.

Jo Walls is a sculptor and painter based in Bishop’s Stortford, with a background in animation from Bournemouth and postgraduate studies at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design in London.
Best known for her whimsical characters. Recurring themes use geometric, organic shapes and negative space to explore the simplification of complex forms. Often these take on characterful, industrial and intriguing entities with their own quirks and personalities.
Creating limited edition and one-off unique pieces. Sculptures use metal, ceramic or mixed media and paintings are predominantly acrylic based with colour harmony playing an important role.
She has exhibited widely around the South East of England, including Savill Garden, Chelsea Art Society, RHS Wisley, RHS Hyde Hall, Orleans House Gallery, National Trust Claremont Landscape Gardens and the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, with work in private collections around the UK.

Come and visit the ArtSpace on the first floor!