Category Archives: Exhibitions

Making Waves. Paintings by Lesley Williams

Member Lesley Williams will be delighted to welcome you to her exhibition at the Custom House, King’s Lynn open Saturday 3rd to Saturday 10th June, 10am to 4pm. 

The exhibition showcases some of her marine paintings.

If you want to meet up with other members do come on Saturday 3rd between 12.00 and 2pm and enjoy a glass of wine and a chat. 

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Andrew Schumann at the Purfleet Brasserie

Quantum Disturbance (660)

Quantum Disturbance (660)

West Norfolk Artists in partnership with The Purfleet Brasserie.

Purfleet Brasserie, 19 Purfleet Street King’s Lynn Norfolk PE30 1ER

From the 8th May 2023 for 8 weeks, West Norfolk Artists Association in partnership with The Purfleet Brasserie are holding an exhibition to showcase work by Andrew Schumann.
He is highly respected Norfolk artist and longstanding member of the Association.

Andrew’s detailed, constructed, hanging pieces with a 3-dimensional element and identifiable colour palette never fail to fascinate.

Andrew stated:
“I’ve always made things, encouraged by the wonderful workshops at school,
by the History of Art second half of my degree at Cambridge, and by the discovery
of wonderful artists such as Arp, Morandi and Malevich.   
I’m fascinated by the contrasts and interaction between shapes, colours and the natural, like collected leaves, and the abstract.   
I like finding order in chaos.”

You can view the exhibition during Brasserie opening hours
Thursday 17.00 -22.00
Friday and Saturday 12.-23.00
Sunday 12-17.00

Purfleet Brasserie Bar and Restaurant
19 Purfleet Street
King’s Lynn
Norfolk
PE30 1ER

bookings@purfleetbrasserie.com

01553 277500

 

Three Member Artists Exhibiting in King’s Lynn

Norfolk Landscape by Kerry Long

Three WNAA member artists are exhibiting at Purfleet Brasserie, just off King Street, 50 yards from the Customs House in King’s Lynn from 26th March to 7th May. Kerry Long and Michelle Louise Carter both from Heacham, are exhibiting alongside Snettisham based artist Helena Anderson. It’s an exciting opportunity that is curated by the West Norfolk Artists Association. Continue reading →

5 Upstairs

4th April – 28th April, from Tuesday to Saturday each week .
The Gallery Venetia’s Yarn Shot, 16 Norwich Street, Fakenham, NR21 9AE.

The yarn shop is closed on Mondays .

5 artists getting together to put on an exhibition in the upstairs gallery of the yarn shop in Fakenham. The exhibition space has been running for about a year. WNAA member Tom Thompson whose work is well known to members.

Pia Henderson Is a painter, Kate Vogler is a potter who makes wonderful pit fired pots with abstract surface variation, Karen Callinan is local potter who creates beautiful glazed pots, Lesley Ash, is a sculptor, she creates bronze resin animal sculptures.

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Winslow Homer Force of Nature.

The Gale 1883-93

National Gallery London until 8th January 2023.

I’ve been a Winslow Homer fan for a long time but was long resigned to no one here having ever heard of him, despite his standing as a major artist in the USA.

So, I lost no time booking my ticket when I realised the National Gallery were putting on a major exhibition “Force of Nature” featuring works from his long career.

To quote the National Gallery.
“For the first time in the UK, we present an overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter. Well known to many but not everyone, follow Homer’s journey from magazine illustrator to sought-after artist in oil and watercolour.”

Northeaster 1895

With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, the exhibition is a lot to take in in one visit. Many of the paintings have travelled from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Homer first came to public notice as a war artist in the American civil war which had a massive impact on him. From exploring aspects of war, he went on to paint the lives of emancipated former slaves reflecting the difficulties they faced. He had a deep interest in people living in times of struggle. However, he also painted young society women and children.

He always let his work tell the story, not elucidating if asked for an explanation.

Apart from some early months in Paris, he lived and worked between the USA mainland and the Caribbean, Barbados and Bermuda.

The interlude that has always interested me is the 18 months he spent in Cullercoats, a coastal fishing village in the north of England. It was an artist’s colony, but he stayed through the winter when most visitors returned home. He made many sketches and paintings in his time there illustrating the tough lives of the women. These images also informed his later works.

Through his career he also had a love of seascapes painting the sea in a myriad of moods and the wild seas at Cullercoats added another dimension. He witnessed the life savers rowing out to rescue the crew of the Iron Crown inspiring a major work of his career. Towards the end of his life the sea, a central theme throughout his life became the dominant subject of his art.

The exhibition has a wonderful selection of watercolours and oils which trace the development of his painting style, always with the consistency and development of his colour palette and his attention to light.

It’s difficult to sum up such a huge body of work completed over 40 years, but I loved having the rare opportunity to see all these works together and would recommend a visit.

Michele Summers

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