Issue 18 Autumn 2026

The theme for our Autumn 2026 issue, ROSA 18, is ‘message’, as we explore the ideas, beliefs and inspirations behind the work of the artists and craftspeople we feature.

• Imogen Lycett Green interviews our Pease Pottage-based cover artist, the Iranian-born sculptor Abdollah Nafisi
• A travelogue retraces Pablo Picasso’s remarkable 5-day visit to England in 1950 as a Communist delegate to the World Peace Congress, bookended by visits to Roland Penrose and Lee Miller at Farleys House in Chiddingly
• We visit the Henry Moore and More sculpture exhibition at Wakehurst
• Sculptor, designer and furniture maker Marc Fish welcomes us in to his Newhaven studio
• We follow in the footsteps of James Joyce and T. S. Eliot in Bognor Regis
• Explore the creative spaces of Sussex in “Studio Visits”
• As ever, the magazine is packed with brilliant regular features by our award-winning columnists, original cartoons, book reviews, art-collecting advice and a seasonal calendar covering exhibitions, concerts, performances and festivals across Sussex and the South East