This Years Artists!

I study from Life. Painting en plein air, mainly on the seashore in Cromer, as well as Castle Acre and other places I may visit. Working quickly in oils, I deal with the ever-changing landscape in front of me. Self portraits have always been an important part of my work and study in the mirror is a continuum.

John Sparks is a realist oil painter, based in Norwich. John’s intimate and introspective works deal with themes of transformation and introspection. Primarily using oil on canvas board, he creates images with a sense of yearning that is almost darkly nostalgic. With the innate instinct of a great cinematographer, his muted and restrained colour palettes allow space for an inclination toward existential contemplation.

https://www.johnsparksart.co.uk/

Elizabeth Reed lives in Wymondham, Norfolk and has exhibited her work widely throughout East Anglia, London and the Home Counties with forthcoming exhibitions this year in Norwich. She enjoys painting in acrylics, watercolours and oils. Her most recent works are landscapes paintings on canvas, experimenting with translucent acrylics.

Daniel Brown is a fine artist with experience in graphic design and digital art. His work attempts to capture moments of an unseen world, aiming to convey the majesty of the sub atomic. Exploring concepts of time, the absurdity of reality, dimensions and the big one…. consciousness. A love of urban art and symbolism has been a great influence in Daniel’s work, resulting in a varied and arresting style. “The aesthetic is very important but the style comes second to the concept.”

I am an illustrator and print maker, based in Norwich. My work is fun and colourful and I work a lot with spray paint. I am very much self taught, although I did go to Art School to study Jewellery/ silversmithing.

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Largely self-taught landscape and semi abstract artist inspired by Suffolk countryside that surrounds me and from travels further afield, in particular the Highlands of Scotland and The Outer Hebrides. I’m particularly drawn to the dramatic lines and strong shapes formed by shifts in light. It is the play of light that inspires me to paint. My work acts as a visual diary, in particular walks that I have taken. Smaller works in ink, acrylic and other media are formed and they, along with memories, are developed into larger works in oil on canvas enabling me to explore further colour, shape and abstraction.

I have been a regular exhibitor at the Spring Art Show over the years and always enjoy the show. I tend to experiment with the joys of lots of different styles and would say my style is constantly evolving. My plan for this years show is to exhibit my recent “Abstract Fantasy” works which are paintings that really excite me at the moment.

http://www.chrisgiles.co.uk

Investigating and recreating the many multiple persona’s that we, as humans must develop in order to interact with each other and the world around us. Mixing elements of personal history, text, found objects that resonate a story, a past. Combining this again with traditional portrait elements that contain layers of material, mark making and colour.

http://www.paulfrederickmarsh.com

Brian Korteling is a visual artist and curator based in Norwich, Norfolk. His work examines interpretations of reality, often distorting and dissecting the visual field in the process. He has received awards for both 3D work and painting and has curated many shows in and around Norwich.

https://briankorteling.co.uk/

I’m an amateur artist who started up again 5 years ago after a 25 year hiatus. My work involves taking local landscapes or landmarks and giving them a Sci Fi twist. Also draw commissions….

Rory McShane is a Norfolk based potter, painter and printmaker. Recently he has been making ceramic vessels using clay dug from the ditch next to his house. He uses slip glazes and iron oxide to make images echoing the landscape from which the forms were made.

http://rorymcshane.com

A figurative artist, Elizabeth Monahan’s paintings and drawings are entirely generated from watching and recording human interaction. They are a folding of life into work that draws deeply on people’s connection with each other and their surroundings, and attempt to express the ambiguous nature of intimacy, emotion and our place in the world. Using a synthesis of stimuli – photography, sketchbook drawings and memories of lived experience – the images are about our ever-shifting connection with others and the endless intricacies of looking and being looked at.

http://www.lizmonahan.co.uk

Bungay artist Paul Zawadzki is inspired by a love of the Waveney Valley and the uncompromising coastline at Covehithe and Dunwich on the Suffolk Coast. Currently doing an MA Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, Paul mainly paints in oils on canvas, board or sheet metal, and is investigating the use of natural materials like earth and rust in his work in order to capture the texture and spirit of the landscape. With a love of spontaneity, he enthusiastically embraces the ‘happy accident’, using dripping, blotting and splashing paint while retaining an element of traditional landscape painting.

https://www.artbear.co.uk/

https://www.artbear.co.uk/

“Teather’s works frequently wrenches us back and forth through time and style; As we are shifted between romanticism and classicism we are left entranced, entertained and certainly captivated by the uncertainties.”
Neil Powell, Academic & writer for Wall Street International

https://www.willteather.com/

During the covid years the wild plants and grasses found in the nearby hedgerows and roadsides became my inspiration. These paintings in acrylic on canvas are gestural and textural, produced almost exclusively with the aid of palette knives and other mark making objects. They are the result of time spent studying, photographing and sketching the changing forms and colours of these humble, wild and native plants throughout the year. Thriving on uncultivated land, their simple and complex designs, their interaction with rain, sun and wind make them an absorbing subject.

http://www.barbaraking.co.uk

I work with mixed media exploring and discovering ways to express thoughts and ideas often arising from the subconscious but influenced by the changing and challenging world around me. I am often led by the process, layering with texture, adding and subtracting in a call and respond practice and I find there is some alchemy involved when the work takes over and evolves. Presently I am thinking about dislocation and how I feel this is impacting both emotionally and in a much wider sense. I am a member of LAC, have a studio in the centre of Norwich and exhibit sell my work.

http://kirstenrileyart.com

I work in a variety of media, moving image, print, paint, digital, but always exploring the relationship between the parts that make up a piece. How colour, tone, and material interact during the making process, and how chance affects the finished work.

http://wobblymotion.co.uk/

I did a foundation course at Portsmouth College of Art, followed by a Fine Art sculpture degree at Norwich School of Art back in the 70s. I moved to Southern Ireland where I taught part time and painted commissioned pieces. Life then took over with family and a change of career as a State registered nurse. Now in my 60s I have recently started painting again and during lockdown entered various online art challenges and entered the King Lear prizes competition where I won in my category.

Having worked in theatre all my professional life, I decided to spend more time exploring art, with collage being a recent interest. I took up life drawing and portraiture several years ago, and have accumulated many drawings over the years. This recent work is based on torn-up life drawings (most being in pastel) which I am using to create new images, enhancing them with other media and methods. Whilst it was not the original intention, I like to see this as emblematic of recycling – which more and more is an important part of our lives.

I graduated from the Norwich University of the Arts with a B.A. degree in Visual Studies. My art form is experimental and my ideas come from the making process. I use mixed media and focusing on the discarded and the found object. I transform and manipulate the new form to change its context. In the Covid lockdown I used my imagination in the form of escapism that took me from the dark side of the pandemic to produce a kaleidoscope of colour found in the Mediterranean Sea. I was inspired by the edible sea urchin – Paracentrotus Lividus. I transposed the assorted plastic to create a carnival of colour, textures and surfaces in the form of a abstract collage.

Living and working under the big skies of the Cambridgeshire fens, I draw inspiration from the world around me including rural and built environments. My paintings are derived from plein-air studies which I develop back in my home studio, adding colour to draw on the experience of being in a particular landscape. I’m excited by bold colour, tangy neons and contrasts. I create work using acrylic, oil, spray paint, emulsion, pencil and collage. My paintings are without figures but show traces of human presence or impact. I hope to capture a moment of stillness or contemplation in a landscape.

http://www.amywormald.net/

I have been interested in what is happening around me from previously my house the mundane and always my garden which has been a godsend through the pandemic-the trees, the plants. Bushes, flowers, from walks too…. the occasional trips to the sea. The  macro and the micro. I use a range of materials this time mainly oil paints, some consider old fashioned, I love them. The artist Leslie Davenport said to us you should paint or draw every day of your life.{whatever the weather] I try to do that.

No stranger to the Forum, having exhibited on many occasions including the Norfolk Open Studios Taster Exhibition since 2009. I am, once again, displaying my bold and colourful acrylic artwork in the Spring Art Show. As an Abstract Expressionist I continue to be influenced by nature to produce vibrant, rich paintings both large and small, on a journey that not only explores the imagination but communicates thoughts and ideas aimed at evoking positive emotions in the viewer. I look forward to sharing my journey with everyone.

Inspired by walking meditations along the East Anglia coastline, I attempt to interpret the dramatic landscape in oil paint. After initial, sometimes quite detailed pen and ink or watercolour sketchbook beginnings. I use a technique of slowly building up layers of paint creating tension and contrasts in colour. I grew up in Australia by the sea, studied and worked in Interior Design for twenty years in Sydney, London and Perth before further studying BA (Hons) Illustration and MA in Fine and Applied arts practice.In 2021 and 2019, I was delighted to be shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize, Holt.

http://www.corrintulkart.com

Jan Dingle is a retired printmaker who successfully sold her work through many galleries. She keeps herself creative by oil painting and pen drawing mainly plein air and enjoys being able to expandher subject range.

I love every aspect of art in its’ many forms. I love nature and believe in eating and living as organically as possible. We need to take care of our planet and each other. I hate plastic. I love colour and texture. I love the beauty of nature and believe colours affect our feelings and mood and has the ability to lift us. When I paint I want to create beauty. I want to look at something and not just glance but to be able to go back and look again and again and see new things and beauty that I had not noticed before. As human beings we can never ever hope to compete with our Creator but we can look for inspiration in the beauty that surrounds us and lose ourselves in it’s inspiration for a little while. Never be too busy to appreciate the dew on the grass.

https://susanlyndataylorart.co.uk

My mixed-media abstract artwork is a reflection of my experience of the world. My work is informed by my interest in shapes, spaces, lines and patterns. I seek to provide the viewer with glimpses of the world, my world, seen perhaps from a different and unexpected perspective.
Making a painting is a delicate balance of selection and discernment. Questions arise during the practice of layering, editing and stripping back. This process-led, mixed-media response necessitates risk and chance; conversations between the emerging surface of the painting and my intuition, aiming to build a legacy, each day bringing a different iteration.

http://www.rachelfurze.co.uk

I am pretty new to painting having started in lockdown like many others but very much enjoyed art and performance through my younger school days, I’m a performing Norfolk Musician by trade, performing all over the country, Scotland, wales & have released 19 studio albums so far !

My work explores expressive image making, inspired by liminal and transitional states, for example between sea/water-land, dreams-waking, memory-forgetting. My creative practice embraces paint, mixed media and photography (analogue and digital), and various mark-making implements working on canvas and paper, as I intuitively search for and develop a way of working with materials that reflects the subject matter. Just as the fluctuating tides cover, wear down and reveal, so the images hide and / or reveal, perhaps exposing a lost fragment that has been painted over at some point.

I retired Christmas 2018 intending to travel the world with my husband. Then covid came along and our plans were put on hold but I needed something to find my days. I discovered watercolour painting. I had drawn with pencil and ink since schooldays but never painted. What a wonderful time to discover I actually enjoyed it . Hence my collection of animals entitled – ‘Through the eyes of…….’

Rebecca Thomas grew up in Snowdonia, Wales, moving to London in 1987 to study Fine Art at Central St Martins School of Art, gaining a doctorate from the University of East London in 2005. Her new paintings focus on the peculiarities of the English interior. Her depictions of a densely packed room, complete with blue-painted moose’s head, are a realistic rendition of a space in the artist’s house, while the image of the family dog closely records its generally playful pose. The paintings’ brushwork and colour are brash and exuberant, but the words from Goya carry an undercurrent of unease.

My name is Claire Cassie and I am a local artist with a passion for everything art related. I have studied art for many years and have completed artwork on two sculptures for the “ Break” charity, amongst many other commissions.

I have a keen interest  in wildlife, but also enjoy painting the human figure. Very excited to be exhibiting and enjoying other art work at the SPRING ART SHOW 2022!

I am known for my art on muddy vans but would really like to start getting some of my more traditional art out there. In this case oil paintings.