pop up exhibition at Chequer House Gallery
14 April to 11 May
I love playing with a gelli plate, creating countless different patterns with a mixture of both fresh and dried greenery and using found objects to create variation and texture. I can build up a significant pile of papers – what to do with them? There are only so many greeting cards you can create. Continue reading
Cast of Crabs
I am a pastel artist, and I work in a traditional, realistic style, almost exclusively drawing animals. I live in West Norfolk, although I grew up in Kent. I have always been an animal lover; I grew up with lots of small pets and my mum worked with horses. I have also loved drawing since I was very young – my favourite place to visit on my birthday was always the Natural History Museum. Read more …
Horses rolling , Iceland
I was given my first camera, a Brownie 127, at the age of eight, and a lifelong passion began. My well-worn early photo albums display tiny black and white images of family and friends, a succession of pets, and memories of Cornish beach holidays with crooked horizons and eyes squinting against the sun.
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‘Leaving Lines’ acrylic and graphite on paper
I was a kid who was always drawing, and it sometimes got me into trouble. It was compulsive and at school my ‘doodles’ were not appreciated especially when they appeared on a variety of surfaces. Though later art teachers were more encouraging. I left home and school and only occasionally drew or painted thereafter. I have a BA in film and photography but life took many different turns.
Cotswold Winter
For over forty years my interest in painting has continued to flourish and I have continued to experiment with various techniques and mediums. I also studied Art and Photography to advanced levels through college courses and developed skills in various media and subject matter. I now concentrate on oils and acrylics and occasionally use an air brush to produce out of focus backgrounds in my wildlife paintings.
NORFOLK TEMPORAL
New paintings by Paul Smith
Chequer House Gallery
Wednesday 9 April To Sunday 11 May
This series of paintings is inspired by my experiences in the Norfolk countryside especially the ever changing vast skies.
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Now that our secon exhibition at Chequer House is up and running, we can take time to look back on our successful first exhibition.
From a huge response to visitors selecting a favourite work, Maxine Byron came in first with her work Fiery Sky, Izzy Wingham was second with Presbytery at Whitby Abbey and C Julian Bull was third with Crows and Moon. Read more …
‘Impermanence’ from ‘Permanence — Impermanence’ Wighton 2024
I love anything that is new and different. That said, I love sculpting in any of the traditional ways. When I was at university, I wanted to learn everything — every style, every technique. I remember mentioning this to one of my professors. His horrified response was, “You’re talking about a universal education!” “Yes,” I thought to myself.
‘Gilbert and Sullivan were here, Thumbing’
My artistic journey, like many has been long and varied, I don’t remember when I first picked up a brush, for a long time I painted the usual subjects, landscapes and seascapes but never felt entirely satisfied, I had always studied art and been interested in the European and American modernists, then in 2013 our youngest daughter died, this altered my course entirely Read more …
I have always been drawn to creative pursuits; I am happy making and doing! I have never had any formal training in art & picked up inspiration from many places, some of the old Dutch masters or classical animal artists, and my dad. Dad is an accomplished artist and helps and inspires me more than he knows. Anything creative has always been outside of my day job which began as a Grenadier Guardsman in the British Army, where I would draw during quiet evenings.