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His show, ‘Magnetic & Mesmerising Norfolk’ will include six new original painings. Samuel’s works are based on identifiable Norfolk and Suffolk locations, with a style harking back to the 1920s ‘come to the seaside’ rail posters, with a pop art twist. Travelling back along the coast to Cley, the Pinkfoot Gallery is showing a new collection of plein air forest and heath paintings by Rachel Lockwood. Rachel has been working on location from Holkham and Salthouse to Kelling and Holt. Pinkfoot has new Norfolk inspired oil paintings from Peter Wileman and local artist Jane Hodgson, whose lively paintings of crab and mussel fishermen and reed cutters really capture the working North Norfolk coast. And following on from the success of their new artist, Suzanne Lawrence, who paints expressive interpretations of the landscape around Cley, Pinkfoot will be exhibiting a further 12 paintings. Cley is also home to the popular annual contemporary art exhibition, with this year’s show from 7th July to 7th August called ‘Cley 16: In Norfolk Now’ featuring 75 artists who are creating across a broad range of mediums, illustrating the diversity of artists living and working in the county now. Cley 16, curated by artist and architect Hugh Pilkington, will be based in and around St Margaret of Antioch church and also through the village, at Norfolk Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre and on the shingle beach. The event also includes a workshop programme. Moving west along the coast to Blakeney, The Flint Gallery is welcoming summer with an exhibition celebrating the use of vibrant colour in painting, sculpture and glass. Leading potter Linda Styles has created a new series of work inspired by our changing environment across the warmer months. Stuart Stotter-Brooks of Flint says: ‘Linda’s vessels take a playful and very colourful form but are underpinned by the more formal elements of design. Her unique combinations of slips and glazes create a fascinating tone, line and space on the surfaces of her terracotta clay pots where the objects merge with the background and remain open to interpretation. Linda has exhibited at the V&A Museum, Tate St. Ives and has designed for Terence Conran.’ The gallery will also be showing new paintings by Chris Daynes, Camilla Ward and Ana Bianchi. Quay Art, the specialist print makers gallery based in Blakeney, has recently opened an additional exhibition space on The Quay in Wells.
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: ‘Morning Light Creeping into Valley’ by Rachel Lockwood, Pinkfoot Gallery ‘Blakeney Quay’ by Steve Higton, Quay Art Wells and Blakeney ‘Made in France, 2014’ by Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler, Doric Arts ‘End of the Race, Brancaster’, by Shirley Carnt ‘Vessel with Lime Swimmer’, terracotta clay, by Linda Styles, The Flint Gallery
With more walls available they’re now able to offer a wider range of print techniques plus an increased selection of original oil and watercolour paintings. Two of many new exhibitors at the galleries are Katie Millard who likes to reduce elements in her watercolours to the absolute minimum, capturing the mood of nature and its wildlife, and Steve Higton who moved to East Anglia specifically to be inspired by its stunning scenery, big skies and open landscapes. Award-wining local artist Shirley Carnt (Deterding) will be opening her studio at Coastguard House, The Green, on the edge of the marsh at Thornham for her ‘Life on the Coast’ exhibition from 20th August to 10th September. Shirley is inspired by the uninterrupted views of the sea, marsh and ever-changing sky from her studio. The exhibition will be open daily from 10am to 6pm. Just down the road at Drove Orchards, Doric Arts will be popping up throughout the summer, showing 20th and 21st century design and visual arts. Doric continues to show Americana inspired work, including East Anglian images, by international photographer Richard Heeps, with some of his collaborations with Natasha Heidler coming soon. New for the summer are small occasional tables in Holkham white oak, made in North Norfolk by contemporary English furniture maker, Frank Falvey.
‘Holkham’ by Bryan Harford. The fourth annual exhibition ‘Art in Your Eye’ opens at Ringstead Village Hall on 9th July, with works by 46 local artists including Bryan. The exhibition will run until 16th July. Bryan will also be exhibiting there in August from 6th to 7th, 12th to 14th, 18th to 20th and 26th to 29th. ADDRESS BOOK: Bircham Gallery, Holt 01263 713312, www.birchamgallery.co.uk Burnham Grapevine, Burnham Market 01328 730125 www.burnhamgrapevine.co.uk Cley 16, www.cleycontemporaryart.org Crawshays, 07703 599362 www.crawshays.co.uk Creake Abbey Café, Creake Abbey, North Creake 01328 730399 www.creakeabbeycafe.com Doric Arts, Drove Orchards, Thornham 07810 730607 doricart.com Fairfax Gallery, Burnham Market 01328 730001 www.fairfaxgallery.com Pinkfoot Gallery, Cley 01263 740947 www.pinkfootgallery.co.uk Pocock’s the artmonger, Burnham Market 01328 730370 www.theartmonger.co.uk Quay Art, Blakeney 01263 740013 and Wells 01328 710905 Shirley Carnt, Thornham 01485 525717 www.shirleycarntartist.com The Flint Gallery, Blakeney 01263 741791 theflintgallery.co.uk The Kitchen, Burnham Market 01328 730330 www.birdiefortescue.co.uk The Red Dot Gallery, Holt 01263 710287 www.thereddotgallery.com The Red Lion, Cromer 01263 514964 www.redlioncromer.co.uk West Barn Gallery, Great Walsingham Barns 01328 820900 www.walsinghamgallery.co.uk
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