Andrew Midgley

Andrew Midgley is a professional landscape photographer and staff photographer
for the Peak District National Park.
He studied landscape photography at university and holds a masters degree (distinction). After lecturing in colleges for many years, he now regularly leads photography workshops. His enthusiasm for wild and coastal landscapes and his individual style means
his work has been used widely in a variety of magazines and books, including the best selling Grand Literary Café’s of Europe. His photographs have won awards in major international photography competitions.

Louise McLaren

Louise grew up in East Anglia and Sussex.
She studied Art at Worthing Art College. Following that she did a three year
apprenticeship with an Antiques restoration firm which enabled her to go on and
specialize in Carving, Gilding & Lacquer work. She attended West Dean College in
West Sussex to study, frame restoration & C18th wood carving.
Louise was part of a Somerset based Restoration company during the eighties
and nineties, but carried on drawing and painting taking on commission work as well.
She says ‘one day I decided that I wanted to use my art to help people,
I had been homeless for a few months, I also had some thinking time and had come
across quite a few people with issues of one kind or another and felt that there must be
some way to help, my move back to Norfolk kick started me’ in 1999 Louise started to give art workshops to students from ‘Day Break’ and from then on did various training courses and has worked with different groups of vulnerable people: such as Client and Carers Groups for Salthouse Exhibition in 2007 and 2010 and Action for children’s Art matters involving children who are carers.
She is currently assisting YESU in Melton constable run Children’s Craft workshops.
Louise believes in a holistic approach to her students and her own work, and actively empowers them to create in their own right.
She specializes in Watercolour, pen & ink, Print and Mixed Media and
Undertakes portrait commissions too.
Her prints are derived from reusing polystyrene as a block printing method on recycled paper, apart from being a decorative reflection of the nature she loves she wishes
people to be aware of the lack of recycling facilities for packaging such as this despite
it’s ‘pet mark 6’ logo, but also the amount of unnecessary packaging that could be
stopped or alternatives used. She has used it as a theme for previous Art workshops
and press releases.
www.louise-maclaren-artist.weebly.com

David Tipling

David Tipling is a well known professional wildlife photographer. His many awards
include the prestigious Nature Photographer of the Year. For the past two decades
David has traveled extensively photographing some of the world's most conic wildlife.
He is the author of several books and his wildlife photographs have been published
widely throughout the world.
His prints hang in both private and public collections including the Nikon Gallery in Japan.

Judy Scott

Colourful still life and Plain air figurative paintings in Gouache and oils.
Also black and white printmaking based on drawings of people ,
theatre rehearsals and small Papier Mache Sculptures.
Judy has had many solo exhibitions both in London and all over east
Anglia , as well as works accepted for National competitions and prizes.

Cecilia Evans BA MA

Trained at the Royal College of Art, gaining a MA in 2007.
I have exhibited in major galleries in London, Norfolk and New York.

My work is rooted in psychogeography - the impact of the built environment on the
senses with particular reference to “Aesthetic of Disappearance”
the elusive ephemeral world of the finite and reflections on the impact of
current technological developments with their implication on notions of real/virtual.
Although previous work has been based on the urban environment, recent work
evolved from walking the North Norfolk coastline and observing the remnants and
traces of the past with all the resonance's of a different time and meaning.

Shirley Carnt

Shirley Carnt is one of Norfolk's leading landscape artists.
Her medium is oil and occasionally watercolour.
Shirley specialises in the big wide dramatic skies of the region and the dark
moody marshes and shoreline.
Shirley has exhibited worldwide and as far away as the U.S.A.,
Australia , Kenya and the Middle East, but her love is Norfolk.

Naomi Clements-Wright

Naomi Clements-Wright has been painting professionally since she graduated
from Newcastle University in Fine Art in 1986. In the first few years she worked
as a newspaper designer as well.
In 1995 she began painting full-time and exhibiting widely, including the
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Society of Portrait Painters,
New English Art Club, Discerning Eye and BP Portrait Award.
Since moving to Norfolk, Naomi has been commissioned for portraits and
other works, including landscapes.

Bronwyn Thomas

My work falls into two areas the 'unreal' and the 'real', the latter
because I have been life-drawing regularly for the last ten years.
I have always liked the 15th. and 16th. Century figurative,
preparatory sketches, for their emphasis on particular areas of the body.
They have a feeling of impromptu dynamism, with body language creating it's own story. These sketches have inspired me to work mainly in a large format using conte crayons
and soft pastel to try and capture a moment in time.

Jackie Hack

Jackie has lived in North Norfolk all her life and her paintings reflect
her love of the area. Her subjects are varied, inspiration primarily stems
from the beauty of the North Norfolk coastline, and the dramatic changing moods of
weather and light.

She studied at Great Yarmouth college of Art and Design, but only began to pursue
her passion for art once her family were grown up.
Jackie uses acrylic as her preferred medium.

Steven Brooks

Photographs of north Norfolk.
Vast sandy beaches, muddy creeks, colourful crab boats
and hideaway beach huts are all images that sum up the magic
of this breathtaking coastline. Available framed or on canvas.

Kay E. Davis

The Creasey Collection of Contemporary Art as well as many individuals have
purchased Kay’s work. She initially studied her degree at Portsmouth University
and took further courses at Central St Martin's and the London College of Printing.
In 1993, Kay moved to France winning a prize for printmaking, exhibiting with Estampes Atelier and working as an art lecturer.  On returning to London, Kay’s work was selected
for the Curwen Gallery, RBA and National Open Print Exhibition.
Kay now produces paintings, prints and three-dimensional pieces.

Sam Pointer

Originally from Cambridgeshire,
Sam Pointer has built herself a reputation as an accomplished
artist in the fields of pastel pet portraiture, life drawing and classic car paintings in oils.
Her love of animals, the human form and a life working with exotic and beautiful
cars has inspired her creation of these in her studio in Norfolk.

Pauline Wrighton

Pauline is a retired Head Teacher who first studied textiles whilst training in the late sixties. Since retiring she has rediscovered her love for contemporary stitch,
gaining a City and Guilds Diploma in stitched textile and embroidery.
She now enjoys the time and opportunity to work creatively in the studio at her
North Norfolk home, using diverse techniques to explore colour and texture.
She has exhibited with West Norfolk Artists Association, North Norfolk Art space
and at the Eastern Open 2010. She participates in the Norfolk and Norwich
Festivals Open Studios scheme each Spring.

Aeroframes

Aeroframes are the creation of Wayne Dodds owner of Fineline Frames.
A new concept in Aviation Artwork, they are highly detailed and
collectible hand made framed models, which have been thoroughly
researched and authentically based on a pilot, his aircraft and the story of events
on which the model is based.
Part of Wayne's research has involved meeting many of the pilots and aircrew,
from the second world War, Including some of the few remaining Battle of Britain Pilots,
The Dambusters and even Dame Vera Lynn.
The models come in,open editions, limited and one off pieces Which also included
commissioned artwork by some of the country's leading Aviation artists
such as Nicolas Trudgian and Simon Atack.

Kate Green

After graduating from Exeter College of Art and Design with a BA (hons) in fine art in 1984, Kate worked in London as a mural painter for Haringey Health Authority, as an art
technician for the Imperial War Museum, and as a basket maker and artist's assistant
to Lois Walpole and Rapid Eye Baskets. In 1996, she returned to college,
to study illustration at Chelsea College of Art and Design, and, from there,
won a European Social Fund bursary to study for a full-time MA at Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design, UCE. Since 2000, Kate has worked as a freelance
artist and illustrator for newspapers, children's book, and greetings card publishers
in the UK and US, also exhibiting her work at numerous UK venues.
She recently made a rewarding foray into public art, completing 6 commissions for
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, where her work has been reproduced as
ceiling panels, window laminates, light box relief's and block prints.
Kate's work can be seen at the hospital, at Cambridge Contemporary Arts,
The Lion House Gallery, Lavenham and during Open Studios.

Annabel Grey

Annabel Grey trained as a textile designer and works on large scale
murals and mosaics for private, corporate and public commissions.
She has a collection of printed fabrics for curtains and cushions etc
and also paints bespoke curtains for private clients.

Jeremy Barlow ROI

Jeremy Barlow studied illustration at Northampton School of Art.He has exhibited at many major venues including the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Royal Society of British Artists
and his work is represented in public, private and corporate collections worldwide.
He is an elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI).

John Hannyngton

John came to ceramics after a life in travel, where he explored many pottery traditions.
His work reflects this experience and it is a combination of the strict forms, determined
by throwing on the wheel, and the organic shapes that come from sculpting the clay
recycled from throwing.

Rachel Hannyngton

Rachel is a portrait painter, producing works to commission in charcoal, chalk pastel
and oil, ranging in scale from simple heads to large conversation pieces.
Alongside this work she has recently been exploring the head as
landscape; examining the role of memory and identity in the face we present to the world.

Lionel Wilde

Retired from architecture in 2003. During his career he painted for relaxation,
mainly in watercolour and pen and wash studies.
With his wife, the artist Brenda Scott, he discovered the sheer peace, vast openness
and special light of the North Norfolk coast, an experience that led them to retire here
to paint full time. He has a lifelong love of impressionism, which he has adopted to
capture the unique soul of the Norfolk landscape. He works quickly in acrylics to
capture the spontaneity, the ‘first impression’ of the scene, sometimes finishing with oils.

He exhibits regularly in local galleries and each year takes part in ‘Norfolk Open Studios’.

Brenda Wilde (Scott)

After retiring to Norfolk ten years ago Brenda Wilde (Scott) found time to reawaken
her love of painting. After several years painting in water colour she began to explore different mediums and now paints in acrylic, pastels and oil. Brenda paints a wide spectrum of subjects including animals, fish, landscapes, birds and flowers.
She has received several commissions, takes part in Norfolk Open Studios
and participates in local exhibitions

Ann Payne

Ann Payne has been painting all her life and she attended the
"Byam school of Art"
She lives in Norfolk and is currently painting landscapes.
She has had two London exhibitions, and exhibits at The Royal Society
of Portrait Painters, and The Eastern Open Exhibition, Kings Lynn.

Roger Griffiths

Roger is an award winning, contemporary
wedding and lifestyle photographer based in Fakenham Norfolk. He is
passionate about ensuring his clients are relaxed and having fun as those
times are the best for spontaneous, happy images. Roger applies the same
principles to all of his commissions and his friendly, relaxed manner
ensures that his clients return time after time for beautiful,
timeless photographs.

Lilian Shaw

Lilian did her foundation in Arts at Hastings collage of Arts and
Technology, before going to do a B A Hons in fine art painting.
For many years she participated in Norfolk open Studios and has shown work
at the Nicholson gallery as well as many other galleries across Norfolk.
Most of her work is in soft pastels. Recent themes including ageing and neglected
subjects. She also created a series of winter
landscapes , bracing herself to work directly outside in the snow.
Other subjects include portraits , gardens landscapes, interiors and still life.