Just Art's exhibition at Edgmond Evangelical Church displayed work by many artists of varying experience and age who work in a variety of mediums, together with a portrait by Stuart Pearson Wright, the former Cavendish pupil whose work can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Stuart studied at Eastbourne's College of Arts and Technology, which prepared him for the exclusive Slade School of Fine Art in London.
His early passion was portrait painting and while creating a portfolio for the Slade School he invited a retired bishop, local MP and his headteacher to commission him to do a portrait.
Former Cavendish headteacher Arthur Cornell said the portrait of him was produced in the attic of Stuart's mother's home with a single light bulb as the means of light.
Mr Cornell added, "The sittings were at the end of the day when I was a little weary, and reflect the rather severe figure he saw me to be as the headteacher at his school."
The artists thank everyone who visited the exhibition and left a donation for the Beachy Head Chaplaincy.