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Art school: Discovering the Modern Physic Garden
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‘Brooding Sky Over The Wash’ by Rebecca Lloyd, Pocock’s The Artmonger
ADDRESS BOOK: Sandringham Estate, 01485 545408 www.sandringhamestate.co.uk Burnham Grapevine Gallery, Burnham Market 01328 730125 www.burnhamgrapevine.co.uk Cley 15, www.cleycontemporaryart.org Fairfax Gallery, Burnham Market 01328 730001 www.fairfaxgallery.com Fineline Frames & Gallery, Creake
Abbey, North Creake 01328 258964 www.finelineframes.co.uk 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 The Flint Gallery, Blakeney 01263 741791 theflintgallery.co.uk The Red Dot Gallery, Holt 01263 710287 www.thereddotgallery.com
upils at Burnham Market Primary School, SALT glass studios and Dr Laura Bowater of UEA have been involved in a unique educational project to create original glass labels for plants at the UEA’s new Modern Physic Garden. The project, funded by North West Norfolk Decorative & Fine Art Society, saw pupils attend glass art and design workshops SALT glass studios visit to Burnham Market Primary School provided by SALT and talks by for glass art demos for the plant labels ©Andy Sheppard Photography Dr Bowater learning the plant science. Their designs show the traditional and 21st century medicinal, nutritional and structural benefits of plants from tomatoes and broccoli, saffron and woad, to willow and reeds. The UEA will select one school design for public display at the new garden which SALT will create as part of the series of glass labels for the UEA’s Modern Physic Garden, which opens in October. The pupils will also create glass plant labels with SALT glass for the school’s garden. • SALT glass studios, Burnham Thorpe www.saltglassstudios.co.uk
Meet the artist: Lawrie Williamson
Lawrie at work
Award-winning, octogenarian artist Lawrie Williamson will be returning to North Norfolk to exhibit his work for the 26th year this summer. He’s busy preparing for this, a solo exhibition, at Fairfax Gallery, Burnham Market
You’ve been painting for almost 70 years, how did you start? I began a formal academic relationship with Fine Art at the age of 15, when I won a County Major Exhibition Scholarship, so I’ve been involved for 67 years with a brush in hand. Add a few early practice years. There goes my excuse for not knowing what it is about! What inspires your work? I paint what I know - colliers, public houses, beautiful dogs (including my rescue greyhound, Wodge), fishermen and general behaviour. All these things contain sparkle and surprise, and give my brush the opportunity to put light or dark areas in juxtaposition to realize lovely compositions. I work in many media, but mostly oils. My work is unified by observation of what interests me. It is my intention to lend my eyes to the viewer of my work, to give a fresh and clear window, a new view and a little surprise for my patrons. Why do you keep coming back to North Norfolk? I have been coming to Norfolk for more than a quarter of a century, 26 years in fact, first to The Ringstead Gallery with Don and Margaret Greer. This will be my second exhibition at Fairfax Gallery. I fall in love with Norfolk when I am in Norfolk, and recall her when I am absent. I have many friends in the county and think of them as a cultural link, which I enjoy.
‘Back bar’, oil on canvas, by Lawrie Williamson
• Lawrie’s exhibition ‘All My Eye’ will run from Friday 24th July (5pm-7.30pm) to Monday 3rd August, at Fairfax Gallery, Burnham Market, 01328 730001 www.fairfaxgallery.com. Lawrie will be at the gallery during the opening weekend. Wodge’s fans will be pleased to hear that although he’s staying at home, his image will be present. NORTH NORFOLK LIVING HIGH SUMMER 2015
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