insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 12 - February 2016 | Page 11

NEWS

HISTORY MEETS ART AT EASTBOURNE’S TOWNER GALLERY
Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery is delighted to present Recording Britain, an
exhibition of nearly fifty watercolour paintings of the changing landscape
of Britain during the Second World War. Set up by Sir Kenneth Clark at
the outbreak of war in 1939, Recording Britain was a scheme intended
to boost national morale by celebrating the country’s natural beauty and
architectural heritage, as well as a memorial to the war effort.
Selected from a collection of 1500 paintings, now held by the Victoria and
Albert Museum, the show features artists such as John Piper, Kenneth
Rowntree, Barbara Jones, and other emerging artists of the time. They were
commissioned to paint places and buildings of characteristic national interest,
and to document rural and urban environments, and precious buildings
under threat from bombs and the effects of progress and development.
Spanning the length and breadth of the country, from Yorkshire to
Cornwall, Caernarvonshire to Norfolk, the exhibition celebrates the rich
diversity of buildings in England and Wales in the late 1930s and early
1940s; from old cottages, farms, pubs, hospitals and churches, to naval
relics, stables, stately homes, condemned domestic dwellings, industrial
canals, mills, mines and quarries.

Opening on February 6th, Recording Britain will run until May 2nd;
admission is free.

KENAGI MARTIAL ARTS ACADEMY KICK-STARTS 2016 WITH NEW VENUE
Kenagi Academy of Martial Arts has now
moved its Saturday classes to Southwater
Junior Academy, and is encouraging the local
community to use the move to kick-start a
healthy lifestyle for 2016.
Teaching everything from kickboxing, selfdefense and weapons training in the morning,
to family karate, Kata training, and Bunkai and
Kumite kicks and drills in the afternoon, due
to its convenient location, Southwater Junior
Academy is now the home of martial arts for
the local area.

Sensei, Brian Redman, Kenagi trainer,
commented: “The New Year is a great time to
start a new healthy activity, so with a change in
venue to Southwater Junior Academy, we want
to encourage people in the local community
to make a healthy change for 2016. As well
as helping with overall fitness, martial arts also
teaches discipline, and can therefore lead to
a healthy mind as well. Karate is something
that people of any age can learn, so it’s a great
activity for families to do together, no matter
what their ability.”

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Family Karate will take place at 12pm every
Saturday at Southwater Junior Academy.
For the full Saturday timetable and more
information about other Kenagi Academy of
Martial Arts classes, please visit
www.kenagi.co.uk