About Us

Patrons: David Tate OBE and Mrs Jenny Tate 

The members of Crowborough Arts’ Steering Group and Project Leaders are listed below.  Please refer to our contact page if you would like to get in touch. 

Steering Group​

Angela Vernon Bates
Co-Chair/Music & Visual Arts
Angela has been professionally involved in the arts all her life, both as an opera singer and artist.  She brings her inside knowledge and practical skills to the organisation of special events and her optimism and enthusiasm to the Steering Group.

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Gaye Jee
Co-Chair/Literary Events Group/Publicity and Newsletter Design/ Website 
Gaye's background is in both commercial and fictional writing, and she has taught on the University of Kent’s creative writing programme. Currently she works at Penshurst Place as a tour guide and Visitor Coordinator and also acts and writes for The Company Upfront, a Murder Mystery company.

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​Ivor Quinn
Hon. Treasurer
Ivor is now retired after a career in local government. Ivor has always been interested in the arts and you will often find him behind the bar at Crowborough Arts events.

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Christine Roberts
Secretary / Literary Events Group
Christine has a background in teaching all aspects of English and Education in post-sixteen and higher education. She is an avid reader and enjoys writing poetry. She also works with textiles and particularly enjoys hand embroidery. 

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Sandy Infield
My work is inspired by the landscapes of our cultures. I have lived in Vietnam, Bali, Uganda and now Fairwarp in east Sussex UK.  I believe that we use pattern as a language passing stories and knowledge to each other and our children.

​I use resist to incise patterns, which can be draped or inserted across a landscape.  These two  elements, pattern and landscape inform each other and can be interpreted with a narrative or understood as a comment on the world that we live in.