june broadhurst

June Broadhurst has lived in Brighton for 44 years. She was born and brought up in North Yorkshire - on the Whitby Moors. She did a traditional art school training. Specializing in textile design. Her first job was to produce sketches showing how interiors could be transformed by different furnishings and colours. This was followed by working for Heals in London as their exhibitions designer. Then there were 10 years running her own shop in Eastbourne, the emphasis being on well designed modern furnishings and doing interior design work for hotels in Eastbourne and Ideal Home Magazine, and a building company in York.

A Change in personal circumstances meant a change in careers, and she trained first as a social worker followed by training and working as a Jungian Analyst.

It was only at retirement 8 years ago that she went back to art - and with a strong desire to paint pictures.

She paints mostly landscapes of Sussex, but also paints Churches, Trees, Still Life, Flowers and Portraits.

What she decides to paint depends on what excites her as she walks on the Downs or under the Cliffs.

It will be a coming together of colour, contrasts of light and dark, to create a tension - an atmosphere, a sense of drama perhaps, or a sense of calmness. She hopes her paintings reflects her two long periods of training in colour and design, and then trying to understand the unconscious. Plus her love of the bleak Yorkshire Moors together with a love of the softer inviting Downs.


She uses water colour - acrylics, mixed media and charcoal.

She has had 2 open houses in Brighton Festival and will probably have more. And also a one man show at the Grange in Rottingdean. And this year a one man exhibition at the Crypt in Seaford. Her work is currently displayed in several local restaurants and she has had exhibitions in various Psychotherapy clinics in London.