Chichester’s newest art gallery

Candida Stevens Fine Art is a contemporary fine art gallery and consultancy based at 12 Northgate, Chichester. Working with Royal Academicians and emerging artists alike, the gallery aims to bring the best of contemporary British art to West Sussex, explains Candida who runs the business.

“My husband Dan is a professional photographer. He has been working as a photographer for getting on for 30 years in London. We moved our family down three years ago, and between us we to and fro to London on a fairly regular basis. But Dan had done a couple of solo exhibitions in London, and I did art history as my degree. Between us we have been immersed in the world of art and art history for a long time. I started (the venture as) TINT-ART three years ago as a different concept. The concept was then web-based and had a focus on photographic fine art. Being digital by nature, viewing photography online was not such a big step. We started it online, and we then did some Q&As with people. We got some groups together and did some research to find out what people were interested in. We found out that the fine art photographic market is not as developed in the UK as it is in the US. In the US, it is properly considered an art form. Here it is not yet.