If you are a Londoner who wishes they were by the seaside then the exhibition opening at the Bankside Gallery tomorrow night is for you. Norwich Printmakers at Bankside Gallery runs for a week only, 22nd – 27th June. There will be 33 printmakers from the Norwich area there, many exhibiting in London for the [...]
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Purple Podded Peas
December 12th, 2009 1 Comment
Celia Hart is a printmaker and illustrator born and bred in East Anglia. She translates the world around her into block prints in hazy colours reminiscent of old book illustrations, as well as blogging about cosy studio life and the rich harvest of her walled garden.
She edits out the sad things of life away [...]
Tags: block prints · celia hart · gardening · magic cochin · printmaking
St Jude’s Christmas Show
December 4th, 2009 No Comments
St Jude’s in Itteringham are opening their Christmas show with mulled wine, mince pies and a glorious exhibition of prints.
Felbrigg Hall by Ed Kluz is one of the standout pieces for me in the online preview – part collage, part painting and full of joyful colour, it’s one of a collection of images of eccentric [...]
Tags: christmas presents · printmaking · st judes
Cambridge Festival of Ideas
October 21st, 2009 No Comments
Just a quick note to say that the Cambridge Festival of Ideas starts today. Their programme is hugely wide, from a plant orchestra at the Botanic Gardens to curators at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology sharing their favourite pieces from the museum, to an Intaglio printmaking workshop, plus talks, performances, hands on workshops. It’s [...]
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East Anglian Herbal
October 18th, 2009 No Comments
I’ve written before about East Anglian illuminated manuscripts – the area was a byword for particular beauty in Medieval times. Bibliodyssey (a great book illustration blog) has a wonderful post on lovely pattern book – Tudor rather than earlier, part bestiary, part herbal, a collection of interesting things that caught the artist’s eye.
The animals range [...]
Tags: illuminated manuscripts
Holkham Hall
September 6th, 2009 5 Comments
This blog has a slight danger of becoming a stately home review blog, but I’m not going to apologise. I love being surrounded by beautiful things and drinking tea, and a house visit generally involves both of these in spades. It’s like Grand Designs without the hard hats.
Holkham Hall is interesting to visit because it’s [...]
Tags: holkham · north norfolk · stately home
Justin Partyka in Norwich
August 28th, 2009 No Comments
On Tuesday the Justin Partyka show opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. I’ve written about him on here before and I do think it’ll be a show worth going to see – there will be more than fifty of his images of the East Anglian countryside and its people. It’ll be on til [...]
Tags: countryside · exhibition · Justin Partyka · photography
Bending the Line
August 23rd, 2009 No Comments
The Arts Council thinks Sleaford is in the East Midlands, but lets sneak it in here because it’s still in the Fens. Sleaford is home to The Hub National Centre for Design and Craft.
It has an energetic programme of exhibitions, courses and events that aims to encourage appreciation of design, craft and culture, and acts [...]
Rika Newcombe
August 4th, 2009 No Comments
Apologies for the week of silence – I had the flu and during the course of it they took out my brains and replaced them with porridge. It’s nice to be able to more or less think again.
Meanwhile I wanted to point to the work of Cambridge based artist and printmaker Rika Newcombe, who was [...]
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Reynolds Stone
June 29th, 2009 1 Comment
Reynolds Stone was a hugely talented engraver who spent much of his adult life in East Anglia, staying on after a degree at Cambridge to be an unofficial apprentice at the Cambridge University Press and experimenting with engraving. A story quoted on his official website goes that he met Eric Gill on a train, who [...]
Tags: Bristish talent · east anglia · penguin books design · reynolds stone · times logo · wood engraving