Possibly Cambridge Museum of Technology is an example of Big Society in action. It’s also the perfect place to spend a few hours on a wet bank holiday afternoon, soaking in the smell of hot metal and grease.
The museum is housed in a Victorian pumping station, staffed by volunteers, and stuffed with beautifully maintained Victorian [...]
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Cambridge Museum of Technology and Related Stuff
August 29th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: cambridge · cambridgeshire · east anglia · east of england · museums · printmaking · Technology · victorian
Norwich in London
June 21st, 2010 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Bankside Gallery · printmaking
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
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 [...]
Tags: printmaking · rika newcombe · taxonomy
The light in Aldeburgh
March 14th, 2009 1 Comment
I fell in love with the work of Derek Chambers today – he’s a printmaker based in Suffolk who has done some glorious work in and around Aldeburgh that, for me, captures the peculiar light and atmosphere of the place.
He was a london ad man for 40 years before moving to the country and concentrating [...]
Tags: aldeburgh · art · derek chambers · design · east anglia · etching · print · printmaking · seaside · sudbourne printmakers · suffolk · suffolk coast