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.

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.

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.

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.

Norwich Dandies tour first stop NNUH Hospital fete

This Thursday at 4pm the NNUH hospital fayre the Norwich Dandies will be there

Paint Out Norwich competition

This week I will be in the Paint Out Norwich Competition painting 5 different parts of the City in old school ink and watercolour on paper. Lets hope the all fairs well to good calm weather. One of the paintings will be auctioned off on at the Hostry where there will be a Gala night of champagne, nibbles, auction and exhibition. Then for a month the paintings will be in an exhibition at the Hostry in Norwich cathedral and for sale.

Dandifest Highlights at the NNUH

Some of the work from Dandifest 2015 in Norwich has gone up at the NNUH hospital on the 2nd floor for a special exhibition. The work was randomly picked to go in the exhibition and was everything I could hang in a day. Next exhibition I would like to print out photos of the larger works from Dandifest and show them. But this will have to wait till next year when I have more time. This exhibition will be up till November.

Goob signed sketches on exhibition from Q & A

Sketches of the Goob film Q&A in Norwich Cinema city are now framed and on show the Silver rooms Community hall in Norwich on Silver Road. Make an appointment with the Silver rooms to take a look round. 

The Goob is an award winning film made in Norfolk using real Norfolk actors with the Norfolk dialect. Its a fantastic film that stars Sean Harris. Sean now stars in Mission impossible films. The sketches were signed on the evening of the Q and A at Cinema City in Norwich, UK.  The DVD for the Goob will be out next week from the 21 September.

Houghton Hall Sketches

Houghton hall sketches of a Servant. I started working at Houghton hall in 2013 for the Houghton Revisited show, which brought back all the original paintings that once hung there before they were sold to the Hermitage in Russia. The rooms were brought back to there glory of the 1700's. Each day I look after different rooms. When there is quiet times so I fit in some sketching of the rooms.
This year I was brought back to Houghton Hall for the 'James Turrell show" Which is very modern art light show that is placed in different parts of Houghton. Sometimes I am looking after the light exhibits and other times I am i the house looking after the paintings in the rooms.
I have put all my sketches together and they are now on show at the NNUH hospital in Norwich on the 2nd Level corridor. I have mounted about 20 pictures and some are unmounted. They varied in size one picture is made up of lots of pictures where I have tried to draw the whole rooms and joined all the smaller sketches together together. If your in the NNUH it is an opportunity to see a piece of Houghton Hall. Houghton hall is open this year till the 24th October and well worth a visit.

Gallery Norfolk Summer show 2015

Gallery Norfolk has a Summer show of wonderful paintings by local artists.
My work has featured in the show this year with my beach paintings. Mostly of Cromer beach but also Overstrand and Sidestrand.
Whenever I get a chance to go to the coast I go by train with my bike. I get off at Gunton station and ride through the countryside and stay in my cousins house near my family. Every sunny day I ride into Cromer and set up on the beach to paint. This year my folks bought me this trailer so I can take a chair and stretched paper on board and all my paints down to the beach. Its really a children carrier but it does the job of taking all my work.

Last year I started beach painting as a break from city life. I done a dozen pictures and then took them up the slope by the Rocket House cafe and the life boat to Gallery Norfolk which is just on the left on the main street.

Catherine who works at the Gallery was delighted with the art and took it out the back to show Polly who owns the gallery and also makes picture frames. Polly said she would trial them to see how they go.

Polly frames some of the work for the show and then the others are mounted and unmounted sitting in racks.

The work has done very well and selling better then any of us expected.

'En plein air' beach painting can be very windy. But worth being outside catching the rays and fresh air. I look forward to the next sunny day to wheelie on down to the beach on my bike. The art works are all for sale and prised very reasonably for people to take home an original work from there holidays as a cheery memory to help them through the long winter nights.

Pride without Prejudice time to catch

A poster by David Shenton of Pride without Prejudice show time to catch last few days of exhibition.

My work is on the right hand side and postcards are behind the desk. 

John Shelley's Solo show at the NNUH

John Shelleys work all laid out on the tables being sorted ready to hang.

John hanging his art work in the corridors.

All in the cabernets on the first floor of the NNUH. 

John has a little helper, who also took part in all the workshops. 

Pride without Prejudice 2014 exhibition

I will be showing new work which I making this week and I will be drawing Partner Portraits of couples or friends for Pride. With the hope of borrowing them back for an exhibition next year.

Launches 21st July 7-9pm Private view all welcome

Open daily 10am to 5pm (sunday 11am -2.30pm)
21st July -2nd August at St.Margaret's Church of Art on St. Benedicts street, Norwich, Norfolk, England.

My work that I will be making hopefully will turns some heads.

New Views Norfolk 2

My work is now in The Gallery in Cromer and in a new exhibition New Views Norfolk 2. 

Here is two of my paintings framed by Polly at The Gallery. They are drawn on the beach in Cromer only recently. I also have a selection of mounted pictures. As seen on i-witness by Archant news here.

My parents went to the show as they only live up the road from the gallery. I used there beach hut while I was painting the beach views.

Jim O'Hare is a fan of Paul Brommers work which is also displayed in the exhibition.

Here I am with my two paintings on the wall. One is of a fishing boat and tractor and the other is of the pier on the other side which rarely gets painted. 

The Private view filled out with people and there families.

Here is Granny Marian O'Hare with her grandson Malachy 

The Gallery has a great range of works from ceramics to sculpture to prints and oil paintings. Living and dead artists work.

The work is mostly of the Cromer area which is in North Norfolk in England. 

My work is painted in dip ink pen and watercolour

The outside of the gallery which is an amazing looking building in Cromer

Looking in the window at the art

Catherine Metcalf works at the gallery and helps hang, frame and sell the art. 

The gallery tattoo

The exhibition is on till the 2nd August 2014