Jane likes to think she has photography in her genes. Her grandfather exhibited in Canada, UK, Germany and France from c1910-1920 and Jane hopes to follow in his footsteps. She favours close-up portraiture and will be starting new projects in the Autumn including 'community living' and 'gingers snaps & copper tops' as well as continuing her 'trades & crafts, professions and confessions' portraits throughout Sussex. her website will be up and running from December. www.janewrin.com

If anything, my photographs are influenced by the Surrealists. I want to try to make the familiar strange and the extraordinary…well, stranger. I have lived in Lewes for four years and that is certainly the effect it has had upon me. The history of the Foundry and its relationship to the development of Lewes should not be forgotten or neglected and I have tried in my photographs to make the Foundry memorable by visually underlining the oddness and beauty of the building and its contents.

My move from London to Lewes has encouraged me to concentrate on my long-held interest in photography. The way in which the Downs infiltrate Lewes has inspired me to photograph the town and, in my photographs, I have attempted to show the aesthetic relationship between nature and decay.

Paula spent the early part of her career conducting scientific research in the field of optics and human colour vision. Since moving out of science some years ago, she continued this interest through painting and, more recently, photography. She has a particular interest in human vision in twilight, where the human eye undergoes the significant shift from colour to monochromatic vision. In this series she has explored Lewes as the light diminishes - from fading sunlight through twilight and into the night - attempting to create unusual perspectives on familiar locations.

The inspiration for the reflections in the river series came to me early one morning whilst walking around Lewes on a photography mission. It was a glorious morning and I paused on Cliffe bridge to look at the river, which was unusually still for one that is in constant tidal motion. I shot a few images, one of which was entirely of the buildings reflected in the water, the idea being to capture a recognisable image of Lewes from a different perspective.

The process of shooting the series proved to be trickier than anticipated. Realising that I needed high tides to get reflections of something other than the riverbank, I picked up a copy of the tide times for reference. Since I also needed the sun to be low in the sky to get a decent reflection and not a washed out image of muddy water, I marked those days and times when then tide was high either just after sunrise or just before sunset. I had two months in which to get all my images, and it transpired that these two factors coincided only twice a month for two days in a row. This meant that I was looking at approximately sixteen hours of potential shooting, which is not a great deal.

As the summer unfolded the tides stuck obligingly to the timetable, yet the sun remained elusive, particularly at the crucial times of those days I was scheduled to photograph the river. Over the weeks it became clear to me that I needed to let go of the concept of recognisable reflections and embrace the reality of shooting an ever-changing subject in fluctuating weather conditions. The series of images in this exhibition is therefore a mixture of qualities of reflection from clear to abstract, but in each instance always a reflection of some ‘thing’, such as a building, object, etc.

I have had a passion for photography ever since I was given a camera when i was a kid. I have now started taking pictures again .

The war memorial in Lewes is passed by every day and has been photographed many times. Photography for me offers a way of viewing a subject from an unusual perspective and I thought it would make a good subject to try and re-vitalise photographically - to look at the familiar with a fresh eye.

Half of my idea for this exhibition was a total accident. Having spent a whole Sunday in Lewes, pretending to take photos, I got the bus to Brighton realizing I had no clue what I wanted to do. I then suddenly saw High Street from this quirky angle through my feet and the polka dot red dress. And it was fun.

The other half of the idea was a necessity. As a first timer in Lewes you would not see what I have seen through these photographs: great artists who bring richness to this place that you will no longer call small nor quiet. Working with them was like working with live ideas. They will paint, sing, play and write! And they are fun.

So I sent the polka dot dress on a Lewes mission to show you these artists through mirror reflections. Often, it required a certain uncomfortable position to get the shot and I am thankful for their patience. In return, uncomfortable I had to be. After three weeks of wearing the same dress around Lewes - it was either giving it away or taking it off. I really love the dress - hence the closing shot. And it was fun.