Castle Fine Art, Brighton

The gallery sits on one of Brighton's better shopping streets, and you'll spot it easily enough among the independent shops and cafes. Castle Fine Art deals mainly in contemporary work - paintings, sculpture, prints - with a rotating selection that changes regularly enough to warrant a return visit if you're in town more than once a season.

It's the kind of place art enthusiasts will linger over for an hour or more, reading the artist statements and actually thinking about what's on the walls. If you've got kids in tow expecting action, they'll find it dull within ten minutes. The space itself is calm and uncluttered, which means you can actually see the work without gallery pretension getting in the way.

The real advantage of visiting while based at one of the nearby campsites - Pegs and Pitches or Brighton Caravan and Motorhome Club are both walkable distance away - is that you can drop in casually without committing your whole afternoon. Browse for twenty minutes on a rainy day, or spend longer if something catches your eye. It works well as a mid-afternoon break between a beach walk and dinner rather than a standalone destination.

Brighton's got enough galleries and art spaces that you could easily string together a proper art crawl if that's your thing. Castle Fine Art won't blow your mind, but it's unpretentious and worth a quick look.