Artist Angela Banner with one of her works in the new gallery at Hunstanton – Credit: Chris Bishop

A new art gallery has brought a blaze of colour to a seaside town hall.

Jackie Kitch has opened her third gallery in Hunstanton in the carrstone civic building on The Green.
The ground floor, which previously held the resort’s tourist information centre, is now filled with paintings, photographs, art works and crafts. Continue reading →

Helen and I ventured out for the first time for months, having had all our jabs and now feel we can move around again with relative safety.

Grayson Perry: The Pre – Therapy Years exhibition is coming to an end at the Sainsbury Centre so we booked tickets for Sunday afternoon.

Always entertaining, Grayson didn’t disappoint.

I guess he is Marmite to many, and we were able to get a good idea of how he has been able to become an established artist showing us his fantasies inscribed on his ceramic pots and plates as an art student from 1982 and 1994.

If you watch Throw Down on Channel 4 you will get some clue to the pottery skills. 
Philippa Perry is depicted largely on the artwork and from his beautiful sketchbooks you can visualise how these ideas are modelled on the pottery.

I have included some photos of the artwork on display and spared you the rawer elements which have been smoothed out by therapy!

You can’t help admiring his artistic career from crossdresser, Turner prize winner to TV presenter, CBE, RA.   

John Walker

Sometimes we all need a mindless distraction. However, downloading this app onto my phone made me think. In fact it sent me down a rabbit hole of colour definition and what is “hue”.

The app’s premise is very simple. You start off with some coloured squares which are arranged in terms of gradient of colour and hue, you press start, it jumbles them up and you must restore harmony. Continue reading →

What a fantastic exhibition it was! Over 50 members entered their work and we had so much praise from the visitors.

Our exhibitions are an opportunity to show off our creativity, but it is also great to meet other artists and this is a real bonus of belonging to the WNAA.

On Monday 20th September, I should have been going to London for the re-opening of my Mother’s old Dancing School in south east London, which had been bought and restored by some of the Stars from Strictly. Unfortunately, it was cancelled due to covid restrictions, so instead of getting a refund on my train ticket, I decided to go to Kensington Gardens and take a look at the Van Gogh Alive exhibition. Continue reading →