‘Anna’s house’ acrylic
I live in the Norfolk countryside with my husband Tony in my family home near King’s Lynn. For many years we lived on a 40 foot steel junk rig yacht, built by Tony in his back garden. We sailed in Scandinavia, the Mediterranean and North Africa and motored through the French and German canals.
‘Summer Contrast’ watercolour
Largely self-taught, I went back to painting when my daughter started school in 1975. Founder member of the Buttsbury Art Society and member of “The 7” life drawing group in Billericay, Essex for many years. I moved to Norfolk in 2005 and co-founded the Northwold Art Group in 2006.
‘ Sun seekers ‘ textiles
The common element throughout my textile and mixed media work is stitch. Whether by hand or by machine, I am fascinated by the ability of simple sewn marks to alter a prepared surface, creating textural interest, structural integrity and emotional response.
Jean Kiekopf – Craning Cranes
The weather was kind when we visited this exhibition. The setting is magical in the grounds of Bayfield Hall with its sweeping lawns, a great treescape and the lake.
We started in the Natural Surroundings cafe and plant nursery spending longer there than we had intended. Such peaceful surroundings with all the cottage garden and wildflower plant nursery. We ventured into the summerhouse to find some harvest mice scampering around their enclosure. Hard to believe that such small creatures can survive in the wild.
Hiro. Shinjuku Station
V&A South Kensington.
Closes Sunday 5th January.
There are lots of reviews online for this exhibition. I hadn’t read more than one or two before I went and was unprepared for the sheer scale of it. Over 300, sometimes large, prints from 140 photographers.
Time to see why this installation is already drawing record numbers of visitors.
We drove through the gates of Houghton Hall and joined a long line of cars very slowly making their way to the car park -proof this is a popular exhibition.
Luckily for us we had a picnic with us and there was plenty of time to munch our sandwiches as we edged along.
We started to spot naked iron men among the trees and in the fields all staring into the distance. Some on pillars, some on the ground and some immersed into the ground.
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Esther Boehm opened Studio @ 55 on the High Street, Heacham in October 2017. In these 6+ years we have watched it grow into a vibrant community art hub.
Sadly, Esther has been told that she will need to Vacate the Premises. We don’t want to see her go!
I spent 10 days in Cornwall this Spring, with half of this time working intensively alongside other artists on a ‘retreat’ at the St Ives School of Painting. The studios are right next to Porthmeor Beach, so a lovely place to go to work!
I found that there were only 5 of us plus lead artists Ilker Cinarel and Camilla Dixon. They were both totally inspirational and forced us all out of our comfort zones while being very supportive.
I was thrilled to be invited as a ‘wild card’ on Landscape Artist of the Year and recently spent a wonderful day at Hever Castle in Kent, where they were filming one of the programmes for the next series. If you keep an eye out on Sky Arts in January 2024 you might catch a glimpse of me! I later discovered that Louise Stebbing had been there the day before, working on a print in one of the pods. Read more …
I think I applied for Sky Landscape Artist of the Year to try and improve on the effort I made in 2016 at the Stowe heat. To complete a multi colour reduction linocut in just 4 hours.
Arriving at Hever Castle at 7am just as the thunderstorm broke overhead, thunder lightning and torrential rain was not how I was hoping to start the day – but at least I was one of the lucky 8 pod artists who could sit it out on the double decker bus enjoying the provided coffee and breakfast.