Issue 17 Summer 2026

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.