Mike Lainchbury

Mike Lainchbury is showing at Highdown Gallery from 1 May to 9 May 2027, a nine-day run in Worthing. It's a solo exhibition, so the whole space will be his work for the duration.

To get your bearings on the venue, you'll need to head into Highdown Gardens, a chalk garden in the South Downs National Park. Sir Frederick Stern spent 58 years creating it, and his collection of rare, chalk-tolerant plants has been admired since 1910. Stern wrote A Chalk Garden and The Study of the genus Peonia (1946), and was the first to describe more than one species of snowdrop (Galanthus), devising an identification method still used today. The gardens draw around 80,000 visitors a year and open every day.

The gallery itself is the converted visitor centre, which now serves as a venue for art and craft exhibitions, workshops and talks. Because the gardens are open daily, you can make a proper day of it: a wander through the chalk beds and the snowdrops, then a stop in the gallery to see the show. Lainchbury's work will be on from 1 May to 9 May, so you've got a good window to fit it in.