Scotland 2, soft pastel
Drawing has been my greatest passion from a young age. I achieve a great deal of self-worth and enjoyment from drawing.
My usual way of working has been to create detailed pencil drawings, but recently I have decided to try a less labor-intensive approach, focusing more on mark making and colour than tiny detail. A trip around Scotland last summer inspired this new approach. Read more …
Tittleshall Village Hall
High Street, Tittleshall
15th, 16th February
10 – 4
I shall be exhibiting, along with 3 Norfolk friends on 15th and 16th February. It will be at Tittleshall Village Hall, High Street. Tittleshall, between 10 and 4 both days.
My first piece of marble in Carrara
With the end of the year approaching, I like to review and see if my year is complete. But how can you rate that? What IS complete? Maybe it’s achieving everything I set out to do but maybe it’s just enough to travel the path as best I can — one small step after the other.
2024 has been a year with both tumultuous upheaval and one of artistic achievement. It has also presented new possibilities for 2025. Pondering this, I recalled my first marble carving course in Carrara, Italy — and my first commission in Carrara marble.
Originally from South East London, I moved to Kings Lynn in l970 to run a family Hotel, which I did until l990, when I decided to have a change of direction, and I opened an Art Centre in Gaywood.
I sold a very wide variety of Art Supplies, plus had a coffee shop and Gallery on the first floor, and a studio, where I held classes and workshops. The 15 years I spent there were very happy, especially helping people to buy the right products and teaching them how to use them. Also with the added bonus of selling their work in the Gallery/coffee shop. Read more …
‘Summer flooding’ oil
I had always been interested in Art but never even lifted up a pencil until I moved up to Norfolk and undertook the Diploma course in Contemporary Oil Painting at the Norfolk Painting School in 2020.
It was transformative for me; finally I found what I wanted to achieve in my future. I loved all aspects of the learning, from studio craft, technical skills, art history and loved the challenges of painting studies of the Masters and learning from doing them.
‘Columbia Road Market’ pen & wash
‘What have you been up to?’ his work colleagues asked
‘Painting’
‘Matt or emulsion’
I had never painted before but I was inspired to take an art course at Willy Lott’s Cottage, Flatford Mill, after my artist mother’s death. Pure watercolour never had enough definition for me, so combining drawing with dip pen and watercolour became my default medium.
‘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.