{"id":4513,"date":"2024-11-03T23:13:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2025-03-05T00:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T00:25:41","slug":"focus-on-helen-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/focus-on-helen-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Helen Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4516\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_6163.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4516\" class=\"wp-image-4516 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_6163-300x210.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_6163-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_6163-1024x715.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_6163-768x536.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_6163-624x436.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_6163.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018Anna\u2019s house\u2019 acrylic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I live in the Norfolk countryside with my husband Tony in my family home near King\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more ...--><\/p>\n<p>We lived in Greece for some years before returning to Norfolk and retiring from our life on the sea. In the years since I have been able to pursue a long held dream to work as an artist, to paint. 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