About Us

The Attic Art Club was established in the 1930s in an attic in Ditchling.  Founded by a talented artist, Rose Cobban (pictured above), for her and her group of friends to meet, paint and discuss visual art together, it became a fundamental part of village artistic heritage.

 

The Ditchling Gazette in 1960 reported that “far from living in the past, it is a very live organisation, men have been allowed to join in the last three years and numbers have been growing steadily, although the aim is, as it has always been, that it shall remain essentially small, selective and compact.” 

 

The Club today follows these ideals, with new members being selected by current members, to maintain a high professional standard.  Also membership has been widened to include artists from across East and West Sussex and includes not only painters but also sculptors, ceramicists and glass artists.