{"id":3215,"date":"2021-05-02T02:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2021-05-03T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:45:27","slug":"barbara-king-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/barbara-king-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara King Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Me working on one of the paintings NORFOLK HEDGEROWS<\/p><\/div>\n

NORFOLK HEDGEROWS<\/strong>
\nPaintings of Wild Flowers by Barbara King at the Creake Abbey Caf\u00e9
\n14th April to 12th September 2021
\nAt last! One year late almost to the day, my exhibition climbed onto the walls at the Creake Abbey Caf\u00e9, North Creake. (www.creakeabbey.co.uk).I had spent the preceding months planning a layout which would create a bright, colourful and uplifting display, and working on the paintings some of which had to be large enough to take on that enormous south wall where they are hung way up high.
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The Big Wall (I did not have to go up the ladder myself!)<\/p><\/div>\n

My theme is Norfolk hedgerows and is inspired by flowers and grasses found in the roadside verges, meadows and wasteland around my home. These paintings in acrylic on paper and canvas are gestural and textural, produced almost exclusively with the aid of palette knives and other mark making objects. They are the result of time spent studying, photographing and sketching the changing forms and colours of these plants, their simple and complex designs, their interaction with rain, sun and wind. Wild and native, thriving on uncultivated land, these humble plants have been ascribed gloriously descriptive names such as Hawksbeard, Meadow Cranesbill, Rosebay Willowherb, Bird\u2019s Foot Trefoil amongst others which make for rather long painting titles.<\/p>\n

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These are the 60×60 \u2018close up\u2019 deep edge canvases plus my \u2018Friesian sisters on their way to the Dairy\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n

The Other walls:<\/p>\n\n\t\t