Art in Lockdown | Pallant House Gallery

During this difficult period, our volunteers have been keeping creative.

Volunteers’ Week takes place 1 – 7 June every year. It’s a chance to celebrate and say thank you for the contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK.

We couldn’t exist without our volunteers, who help us in a wide variety of ways, from safeguarding our collections and exhibitions to supporting our public .

Ordinarily, we usually like to say thank you to our volunteers in person with a special event – for obvious reasons that isn’t possible right now.

While we hope to do something later in the year, we wanted to take the time now to celebrate the creativity of our volunteers by showcasing some of the incredible works they’ve made during lockdown.

We’re hugely impressed at the variety of subject matter, materials and sheer talent – check out our gallery below and click on the image for more details of the artwork.

Print showing somewhat abstracted landscape scene made up of concentric circles in green, white and blue.

Painting of a clear plastic bottle with hand pump containing green handwash.

A half-completed painting of a brown horse with white stripe on its nose.

Photograph of artwork consisting of plastic packaging and green plastic knives arranged in a symmetrical pattern

A series of linocut prints in different colours of the same image - two fish curled around each other.

Pencil drawing of a teddy bear wearing a too big face mask over its nose

Pencil drawing of an old-fashioned jointed teddy bear performing a push up

Photograph of a small lizard wearing a white paper crown

Painting showing pink flowers in a white jug against a black background

A view from a hill across a wooded valley with rolling hills in the distance.

A somewhat abstracted textile figure sitting in a chair with one leg crossed over the other.

An abstract painting consisting of circles, some fillwed with colour and other only outlines Mainly in red and blue, with some pink and yellow.

A somewhat abstract textile piece with embroidery and applique

Photograph showing a pebble beach with tidal inlet.

A spoof travel poster showing a black and white image of a beach, harbour wall and house beyond with the text

A knitted tie with abstract pattern in blues, pinks and yellow

A basket of knitted donuts with a variety of different 'toppings' and an embroidered note that reads

Abstract painting with circles and square shapes, predominately in red with blue, white and black.

A paintig showing a view of an allotment with sheds on the left side of the picture.

A black and white print depicting snow covered hill tops under a clear night sky

A drawing of a pedestrian walkway along a bridge

A black and white abstract photohgraph showing a light at the end of a tube with pins intersecting the tube

Linocut in red of a man with glasses and a beard sitting in a chair, his long legs draping into the floor.

Photograph of a pebble beach under a clear blue sky, with a tributary of water winding from the back left to the front right.

An applique design of three egg shaped objects in different patterns.

A larger than life multi-coloured crocheted mushroom sits in a plant pot.

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