Wighton 2024

WIGHTON 24, 4 JULY – 4 AUGUST 2024
10 am – 5pm daily
All Saint’s Church
26 Kirkgate Lane
Wighton
Wells-next-the-Sea
NR23 1PL

“This year the brief is brief: the artists will explore and push the boundaries of their practice and, in that spirit of exploration, amaze and impress with exciting new work personifying themselves.”

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION by Barbara King

Thursday 22nd to Monday 26th August 2024
10am to 4pm
Ringstead Village Hall, High Street, Ringstead
West Norfolk PE36 5JU
 
Exploring how musical terminology can enhance our visual experience.
Can a painting be described as a Rhapsody? In music the term is used to describe something irregular in form, an improvisation. So, yes.  If George Gershwin can use the colour blue to describe his rhythmic jazzy ‘Rhapsody’ then ‘Rhapsody in Green’ can be used to describe my painting of barleycorn blowing in the wind.

Visit to Time Horizon at Houghton Hall

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.
Having eventually parked the car we set off to “see the exhibition” which raised an interesting dilemma. We were surrounded by it.
We had already “seen” several figures and while there is a map available of the location of all the figures the point is not to see them as individuals.
So what had we come to see or experience?

Art Adventures In Cornwall

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!