2023 Spring Exhibition in Pictures

Thornham Village Hall has been the venue for the West Norfolk Artists Association Spring Exhibition for many years. This year is no exception.

Our Spring Exhibition over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend was a great success, with higher visitor numbers and more sales than ever before.

Here some of the works in the exhibition. Read more …

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. Read more …

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. Read more …

Fabulous Creative Experience

A section of the installation showing the height increasing.

In September I was invited to take part in an Art Symposium in Neukirchen, Bavarian Forest, Germany.

The theme was Cosmos.

When thinking of Cosmos – the first impulse is to think of the universe. So when I took a look at my huge book by Alexander von Humboldt called ‘Cosmos’, I was surprised to find it more to do with natural science and geology than planets and stars – and that Cosmos can also mean order and harmony. Humboldt’s work had to do with the earth as an interconnected whole. Read more …