Personal websites from Hastings & St Leonards-on-Sea (UK)

Now that I’m settled in I wanted to try to start exploring personal (IndieWeb) websites from people here in Hastings & St Leonards in the UK.

I’m just collating personal websites of people in Hastings & St Leonards - not websites for local companies or organisations, and not Facebook pages, Substacks, or any other social media channels. No dead sites - preferably updated in the past 12 months. And definitely no Nazis.

I’ll probably come back to this post and update it when I find a new local personal website so if you know of any then my email address is at the bottom of this page.

Update within 24 hours of posting: I’ve found a load of websites of local artists, so I'm restructuring thing to give them their own section.

Local personal websites

Well, apart from my own website which you’re reading now, I’ve found the following (in no particular order):

Hastings Battleaxe

Hastings Battleaxe, was ‘born’ in December 2011, when Stephanie Gaunt moved from Birmingham to Hastings with Philosopher, her husband, to start a new life by the sea. Initially, it was meant for our old friends and family in Birmingham, and also as a regular writing exercise, a sort of on-line diary, to get the author through the stressful moving in and settling-down period. However, it became a habit and is still going strong.

Steve on Hastings

I set up this blog so that I could continue to write about Hastings, following a disagreement with another media source, as I love the place!

Steve the Beermeister

(Yes, the same Steve who writes the blog above)

I do like drinking real ale, and going to new villages, town and cities and visiting their pubs...

Penny Pepper

Penny Pepper is an award-winning author, poet & disabled activist. A genre-defying writer, her work focuses on identity, difference and what makes us human. She writes stories we haven’t heard, making others see life differently, with provocation, humour and wisdom. She is passionate that disabled women are heard.

Life on the Edge (John Bostock)

Welcome to my Blog with various musings on my home town, St. Leonards on Sea, together with my various interests and obsessions including Ceramics, Art, Literature and Music and all other things under the sun.

Paul Capewell’s website

Hello. I’m Paul. I live in Hastings, work for an architectural conservation charity in London, and I like radio, computers, music, books and photography.

Sean Doherty

Contents will mostly be documenting my home systems and things that pique my interest.

Darren's music blog

Welcome to my music blog. I have fairly varied tastes in music: folk, rock, glam, heavy metal and more.

AdaMSki Blog

My name is Adam and I live in Hastings, East Sussex with my darling wife Fran and beautiful daughters Isla, Honor and Indira. In 2016 I got diagnosed with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This blog is dedicated to everyone who has MS and for my friends and family to understand more about my fun and games with MS.

Personal websites of local artists & photographers

Again, apart from my own website which you’re on now, I’ve found the following (in no particular order):

Ed Boxall

I’m an artist, writer, and performer from Hastings, a seaside town in the south of England.

Rebecca Child

Artist and maker

Emma Scutt

I’m an artist and illustrator. I graduated from Norwich School of Art with a BA (Hons) degree in Illustration. After almost 20 years in London I now live by the seaside in Hastings with my husband and our two cats.

Tim Allen

I'm a photographer and artworker from the South-East of England and my current photography project is 'Strangers When We Meet' where I chat to a stranger and then take their portrait. My other featured projects are 'Artisans' where I documented traditional crafts and 'National Trust People' which is more candid.

Danny Mooney

I love paint. I love the way it flows over surfaces, highlighting texture or concealing it. I add layer after layer of paint to my work until it feels right.

Lesley Barker

The abstract works are a direct response to the sea, sky and landscape that surrounds me where I live in Hastings. The paintings range from small more object like work to very large canvases responding to the land/sea/skyscapes that I experience.

Darren Baxter

Darren Baxter is a London born, Hastings residing artist who has exhibited around the UK for over 20 years. Having trained as an illustrator he hopes to produce visually arresting paintings with an implied narrative in his own signature style, often inspired by nostalgia, contemporary culture and fantasy.

Chris Coombes Photography

Hastings, East Sussex based photographer. Confident in both colour and black and white photography. Specialisms: Landscape, Commercial and Project, Street, Reportage & Portrait.

Rachel Evans-White

I’m Rachel Evans-White, originally from Somerset in the UK, now living in wonderful Hastings with my husband and three gorgeous children. I started out as a mixed-media artist, which basically means playing with a whole load of different art materials. I’m currently working mostly in oils for my portraits, though I love exploring the initial layers with acrylic paint, ink, pencils, pens… anything I can make a mark with.

Julia Everett Art

I am an abstract painter inspired by nature and music, particularly land and sea. My latest paintings are abstract seascapes using colour to express light reflecting onto water.

Kathleen Fox

My work varies in medium - drawing, painting, objects, video and installation - but is consistent in it's interest: an exploration of the fluid realm that is the unconscious.

Mark Glassman Art

Living in East Sussex close to the sea and beach has been an on-going inspiration reflected in my paintings which have become increasingly abstracted. Instead of trying to illustrate a particular location they are distillations of an experience.

Emma Harding

Emma Harding is an artist and maker working in ceramics and mixed media mosaics.

Bronwen Malcolm

Bronwen Malcolm works in central London and Hastings.

Katherine Reekie

Originally from London I’m now based in Hastings, East Sussex, an environment rich in contrasts and eccentricities and the inspiration for much of my work. My imagery, which is often described as accessible but slightly unnerving, is the product of an excellent grounding in traditional figurative art practise, and an interest in the strange and surreal.

Wendy Smith

I find myself continuing to work more and more outside, finding inspiration exploring places that are on the edge of changing environments. The experience, both psychological and emotive, refers to the sense of place and the experience of immersing myself in landscapes that are pre-selected.

Teri Walsh Art

My artistic practice embraces a wide range of media (2D and 3D) investigating the intrinsic structure of natural and man-made objects based on my own photographs, using digital and 35mm black and white film. Printmaking, and screen printing in particular, has in recent years become a major focus (inspired by working in the Volcanic Editions’ studio run by Ian Brown in Brighton).

April Yasamee

Born in London, lived across UK & abroad in Italy, Australia. Now living in East Sussex UK. Member of artists groups in Sussex: Hastings Art School, Hastings Arts Forum; Blue Monkey net; Devonshire Collective