Quentin Bell and Olivia Sterling review – two artists with a magic touch

Charleston, Lewes Bell’s strange and charming ceramics celebrate a life dedicated to creativity, while next door Sterling’s bawdier, weirder paintings form a critique of race and power Quentin Bell was not a great artist, but that didn’t stop him. He saw the world as a magical place.

The ceramicist (son of the Bloomsbury group’s Vanessa Bell ; biographer of his aunt Virginia Woolf ) spent his life lost in a world of magic, myth, newts in ponds, levitating women and knights on horseback. He died in 1996, leaving behind decades of pots, plates, figurines and drawings filled…