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Dandies at Norwich Pride

Norwich Dandies will be at Norwich Pride this year!!

Saturday 28th July in Chapelfield Gardens we have a white marque and inside will be a relaxed art tent for people to chill out and colour in or Dress, paint, pose in our hand made costumes. 

Toy Think Tank Show Norwich

My little critters will be exhibiting themselves in the Attack of the Creatures beyond the forbidden Island at Nunns Yard Gallery in Norwich on the 4th and 5th of August 2018. This is a one off rare show in Norwich with Toy makers from all over coming. Not to be missed.

Cromer Summer show 2018

Holkham Beach painting

North Sea Painting


From the 21 July to 7th August my new Coastal landscape paintings will be on show at Gallery Norfolk in Cromer. Various sizes of work from small to gigantic all done in Dip ink pen and Watercolour. The Gallery is open from Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm. Gallery Norfolk frame my work beautifully. Work is for sale framed and unframed. Due to me winning Paint Out Norwich last year these works will fly off the wall.

Norwich Castle Inheritance art show

One of my paintings was accepted by the Norwich Castle Inheritance art show. The painting was selected from a record breaking number of entries. The show is on till the 20th of May 2018. Looking forward to the Private view which was delayed because of heavy snow a few weeks ago.

Badde Manors postcard featuring in Sydney Review of books

Anna Couani a writer from Glebe, in Sydney got in touch with me recently via my website to ask for permission to use my Badde Manors painting for her essay about Glebe and surrounding area in Sydney Review of books. I use to know her partner artist Hilik when he use to sharpen knifes that I used in the kitchen at Badde Manors. Hilik sharpened them on the back of his motorbike. I still own a chef knife I bought from him. I liked the smaller chef knifes as the weight of the big ones wore down my wrists. Hilik features in my painting above along side everyone who worked at the cafe and the locals who came in. My painting also covers a piece of social history at that time. The Tent Embassy in Victoria park, also protester on roof about stopping uranium mining, the Internet cafe on the street, performance artists, famous musicians, actors and film makers as well as Danny Sebes as a boy with an gelato in hand and now he owns his own gelato shop in Roselle. I feature as the Egg lady as I made the breakfasts at the weekend. Look out for Anna's essay called "Beauty is underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look"

 

 

 

Charity dog calender paintings

My Tigra dog painting features in a 2018 dog calender of rescue dogs for the Super SightHound Rescue dog charity in Norfolk. To buy a calender which raises cash for the charity contact Super SightHound rescue on facebook. If you would like me to paint a picture of your dog in and outdoor landscape scene please get in touch via my website contact form.

Paint out Norwich 2017

Whoopee ! I won Paint out Norwich landscape competition with my painting of Norwich train Tracks heading into the city called Keeping track of time.  The painting was done in 3 hours on the first session on the Monday morning. The area we all were painting was around the train station. I found a steep path beside the station and followed it up to a road beside the tracks. I kept looking to see if there was a view but it was over grown with apple trees and bushes all along till I got to the first bridge where there was a tiny car park of 3 cars parked up against a railing so squeezed in to get a good view of the tracks. Capturing a sky line of the football ground all the way to the station and the castle. The tracks proved quite complicated to paint so I had to quickly work it out. The leaves on the trees were yellowing with start of autumn. There was a slight rain splatters so the start of the picture I hid the work under a cotton sheet that was in my bike trailer to protect my picture frames. When I had finished the ink on the paper I lit up my blow torch and dried it. This was the first time I had ever used an industrial blow torch and was frightened I might set fire to the whole picture. I raced back to base with the painting in my trailer which was thankfully all down hill on my bike. Three judges decided straight away that this was the winning painting from over 200 paintings on show from excellent painters around the UK. The painting was on show at Norwich Cathedrals Hostry in October and now hangs in my home with a rosette stuck to it. Paint out Norwich our selling the works on line if you would like to buy the competition paintings. My all year round landscapes are for sale at Gallery Norfolk in Norwich and Cromer galleries.

Gallery Norfolk Norwich

Here is a painting of Elm Hill in Norwich.
This summer I have been painting landscapes around Norwich city for Gallery Norfolk. The Gallery is at the top of St.Giles number 60 next to the flower bed and Bethel street intersection. If your looking for my Cromer and North Norfolk paintings go to Gallery Norfolk in Cromer which is at 3 Church Street Cromer
Norfolk. Both Galleries open from Monday to Friday 10 am to 5pm. 

Fish Paintings by Emma Hill

Last week I helped my cousin Emma Hill put her show up at the NNUH. Its a fantastic must see show of paintings of Fish.

Emma Hill was born in Norfolk and currently lives by the sea on the North Norfolk Coast.  She studied for a Foundation Degree in Art at what was then known as the Norwich Art College in the 1980s.  Since then, Emma has continued to create her art whilst at the same time raising her son.  Emma paints in acrylic on canvas and paper.
In her present artwork, Emma explores her growing fascination with fish and in the process is seeking to create an aquarium in the surroundings through artistic means.   Emma herself finds fish beautiful and very calming.  She has started to paint fish from seas and rivers from all over the world.    The very recognisable logo for the Cromer Crab Company was also a design of Emma's.
This exhibition at the NNUH will be Emma's first in these surroundings as a solo artist.  The artwork can be seen on level 3 of the centre block.

Dandifest Jumblesale

Dandifest 2017 is coming!

Norwich Dandies are preparing for Dandifest 2017.

If you would like to submit work in the festival have a think about the different themes. We have collaborated with Golden Bees from Australia and looking for submissions for a buzzing bee exhibition.
Also joined forces with Eaton Park cafe for a bicycle picture/painting to adorn the cafe during the festival.
1 square foot show will spread across Norwich in shop windows. Works no bigger then 1 square ft.
International postcard art exhibition which will be in a gallery window on St. Augustine's.
Local and International celebrity portraits show in Yarmouth Library.
Bird painting, photo, wall sculpture. Which will raise cash for Wing and a Prayer and the RSPB. This show is on at the Bridge Gallery at the Birdcage pub.

NNUH Winter exhibition

Painting above of Wiventon Hall which featured in Normal for Norfolk television series earlier this year.

New exhibition at the NNUH hospital of my paintings stretching down the corridor of level 2 and at the end and beginning of level one. Show is on for next few months. Here is a brochure with half the paintings. In total there is 60 paintings on the 8th of December is the Christmas Fair at the NNUH with free parking. Exhibition is open for patients, staff and visitors of the hospital.



 

Paint out Norwich

Paint Out Norwich 2016 this year I was acccepted into the biggest east Anglican landscape competition and my mother Marian was too. I went off in the mornings to a more challenging views and she arrived on the bus from Cromer at lunchtime to paint together in the afternoon to do even more challenging views. Like having two canoes lashed together and both of us canoeing and painting views from the river.
Painting above is the train station in Norwich early in the morning looking intensely at all the lines of steel and cast iron can be mind blowing.  Takes along while with the quill pen to get the marks on the damp paper. I choose the station because it was pouring with rain and its a sort of awning which is ok in the rules. The staff were amazing and I had a good view of the old part of station and the trains through the modern smoked glass.
I would like to go back there later and paint other views.
Exhibition of all the paintings created at Paint Out Norwich as well as my mothers paintings and all the contestants work in the event is held at the Hostry in Norwich Cathedral.

Paint Out Wells

Today I got accepted onto the Wells Paintout Plein air landscape art competition. Held in Wells-next-to-sea from the 16th to 18th September 2016. 

Sunrise and sunsets painting through the whole weekend with an Exhibition on the Quay on the Sunday the 18th.

Hive Alive Sydney

Hive Alive opening night is 6pm 21 September 2016 at Alpha House just off King street on Union street. A show about bees to save bees.  My sculpture travelled from Norwich to Sydney via my visiting brother Justin who resides in Sydney with his family. The sculpture is made from Plasticine it may be reshaped from the long journey. Very much a rare Sydney show of a collection of artists that hung out in Sydney in the 1990's and had a Golden Bee theme back then. The exhibition is the start of a World Golden Bee community and happenings.

Nominated for Norfolk Arts Award

Some jolly news I got married to Robert at Norwich Castle on Tuesday and got nominated for Norfolk Arts award the same day so a fantastic wedding present. Its an EDP public vote so please do vote for me. Its just a click beside my name on the EDP website http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/vote_for_your_favourite_individual_solo_arts_practitioner_in_the_2016_norfolk_arts_awards_1_4676830

Arts East Magazine article

Full page spread in this months issue of Arts East magazine in Norfolk. From the 16 July to 6th August. I will be having a Solo show of my North Norfolk landscape paintings. Come along to Cromer and find the Gallery just opposite Henry's cafe and Merchants place just up from the fisherman's slope to beach. Open Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm.

New website launch!

My new website has been launched today with a shop. Yippee!! Thanks to Beepmode website development that specialises in artists and writers websites for working so hard to make it happen.

ABCD Showcase

A poster I designed for the ABCD showcase in Loddon on the 14 April 2016
I have been working on the ABCD project for over 9 months as a Graphic Reporter drawing at weekly meetings. Bring people and groups together for the whole of South Norfolk. The project was funded by the C.C.G. On January the 30th we had a festival in Attleborough to celebrate the project.

Here is a colouring in version of my poster. Rosie Lee tearooms in Loddon are going to host a colouring in competition. So get you pens and pencils out.