Issue 17 Summer 2026

Issue 17 Summer 2026The theme for our Summer 2026 issue, ROSA 17, is process, as we examine how art and sculpture and music and craftwork, and even wine is made. Our colour expert Alexandra Loske interviews sculptor painter Rana Begum. Imogen Lycett Green meets wood vessel artists Ash & Plumb. ROSAs in house sommelier Dominic Buckwell explores the process behind natural wine. Alex Leith retells the haunted history of Asham House, and its never completed twentieth century

The theme for our Summer 2026 issue, ROSA 17, is ‘process’, as we examine how art – and sculpture and music and craftwork, and even wine – is made.

• Our colour expert Alexandra Loske interviews sculptor/painter Rana Begum.
• Imogen Lycett Green meets wood-vessel artists Ash & Plumb.
• ROSA’s in-house sommelier Dominic Buckwell explores the process behind natural wine.
• Alex Leith retells the haunted history of Asham House, and its never-completed ‘twentieth-century Stonehenge’.
• Christy Edwall, wearing a metaphorical deerstalker hat, investigates the mysterious death of cult novelist Malcolm Lowry in Ripe.
• We ask hotelier Olga Polizzi about her cultural life in the county.
• We look at the ambiguous origins of the Long Man of Wilmington.
• Plus ‘The Big 100’ celebrations marking 100 years since the publication of Winnie-the-Pooh.
• All this as well, of course, as all our regular columnists and cartoonists; a bumper summer highlights issue including details of Sussex Craft Week events, and our hands-on art inspirers Leap Then Look, encouraging readers to get involved in the process of making art themselves.