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New area reps, Lisa Henshall and Chris Reeve

4th March 2021 By Genevieve Rudd

Lisa Henshall is area rep for Harleston along with Nicky Stainton.

I’m an artist and a teacher and I run a pop-up gallery in Harleston.  As a massive fan of WBA,  I’m really excited to help promote and explore the opportunities in and around my local area.

My background is a traditional art school background, I studied Fine Art at Loughborough University and then Art Education at Cambridge University and I’ve painted and taught art since the late 90s in a variety of settings.

Sharing and promoting creativity is fundamental to my life and I see representing and supporting W&BA as an extension of this.  Thank you for this fantastic opportunity.

Chris Reeve is area rep for Bungay along with Ann Woolston.

I’m delighted to be asked to join the committee of W&BA, having been involved with the Guided Walks in the summer months for a number of years, and thoroughly enjoyed organising them.

My career has been as a Museum Curator, and for twelve years I was Keeper of Art  for St. Edmundsbury Borough Council. I took early retirement in 2000, and settled in Bungay taking a part-time role as Community Project Officer with Waveney District Council and then the Lowestoft Community Forum. This got me involved with many local groups assisting them with grant funding applications, and getting intergrated  into the welcoming, and vibrant ethos of our warm-hearted town.

 

 

 

 

 

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Remembering Mel Horwood

13th June 2022 By Jade Nice

by Mary Anne Woolf

Silk textile with figures dancing situated at Potton Hall

In 2021 Mel facilitated a life-enhancing dance workshop at an evening session during Waveney and Blyth Arts’ first Sculpture in the Valley residency at Potton Hall near Westleton. We could not know then that it was to be one of her last public acts as an inspired creator and communicator of dance.  Barely six months later she died after a short illness. 

Mel was a woman of many talents. She recognised the importance of art, in all its forms, as a vital way to express and shape ourselves and our experiences throughout our lives. This understanding was the foundation of much of her formal and informal work.

Early in her life she was a professional ballet dancer but later through her work as a teacher in Suffolk schools and in adult education and her own study at the Laban Centre and Middlesex University, she developed a dance practice working with groups of various ages in a variety of settings. She collaborated with family, friends and communities in Suffolk and Norfolk producing her own work but also encouraging and supporting the development of others’ skills and expression in different art forms. 

In addition, she learned the skills to produce, direct and edit films showing people dancing in response to the landscapes and buildings of East Suffolk.  She also made a film celebrating the life and work of Scilla Dyke, Made in Suffolk, which was shown at Dance East.

As a person, she was perceptive, humorous and quietly persistent. She approached things imaginatively and was always ready to come up with new perspectives. She was never content with the superficial but wanted to explore ideas in depth.  These qualities enabled her to work creatively with people of different ages and in different contexts. They also made her a good friend and I was fortunate to be one of them. Mel and I ran workshops on several occasions looking at the connections between dance and visual art.  So she asked me to take photographs of that final workshop as part of last year’s Sculpture in the Valley.

Mel will be much missed not only by her family and friends but by her community, to which she contributed so much. To honour her memory I have had photographic images of that final workshop printed on translucent silk. They are hung looking towards the garden where last year she danced with the group.  In that sense I hope that you too will experience the layers of time and memory – time then with time now, the imagined and the real, between two worlds – and thereby pause to reflect on all that she gave us.

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Zoe Rubens

1st June 2022 By Jade Nice

Wire and ceramic sculpture of a figure, cups, a key and a bicycle.

Having gained a first class honours degree in Sculpture at Manchester Zoë Rubens is an experienced artist combining the figurative and conceptual.

She uses her distinctive talents and skills working with ferrous and nonferrous metals, both cast and welded and etched, to produce intriguing Sculpture and prints.

Including her unique ceramics she is able to produce visual excitement with many subtle depths of expression and meaning.

Currently working from her studio in East Anglia Zoë challenges many pre-conceptions, experimenting with different techniques and applications and by using her own signature attention to detail within the overall concept makes her work fascinating to revisit.

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Craftco June

1st June 2022 By Jade Nice

Craftco June Exhibition poster

Craftco exhibition this June…

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Beccles Society of Artists

25th May 2022 By Jade Nice

Beccles Society of Artists poster

Local portrait artist Peter Weiss will be demonstrating how to draw the head on Wednesday June 1st at the Waveney Centre Beccles, from 7.15 – 9pm.
Come and join us – all welcome. Members free, non-members £3.
https://www.becclesartists.co.uk/

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Installation Days at Potton Hall

25th May 2022 By Jade Nice

Sculpture in the Valley 2022

It’s all coming together at Potton Hall.

Sculpture in the Valley 2022 opens on Friday 27 May – 26 June and everyone is working really hard to get this amazing sculpture trail ready for the opening day.

Can’t wait to see you there!

 

Here are some of our team working on the final preparations.

Sculpture in the Valley

Sculpture in the Valley

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Merlina Arts

18th May 2022 By Jade Nice

Poster for Merlina Arts

Exciting new Arts & Crafts venue opening at Earsham Heritage Mill on Friday 27th May, with a unique exhibition of 16 local artist covering a range of arts.

The Gallery has easy access, good parking and facilities around the gallery, including a café and walks around the Marshes.

The village of Bungay is 5 minutes drive away.

A great space to hold meetings, art classes or curate your own show.

For the artist we have LED daylight lighting, STAS hanging system and a range of display plinths, as well as a small shop

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Merlina Arts

18th May 2022 By Jade Nice

Poster for Merlina Arts

Exciting new Arts & Crafts venue opening at Earsham Heritage Mill on Friday 27th May, with a unique exhibition of 16 local artist covering a range of arts.

The Gallery has easy access, good parking and facilities around the gallery, including a café and walks around the Marshes.

The village of Bungay is 5 minutes drive away.

A great space to hold meetings, art classes or curate your own show.

For the artist we have LED daylight lighting, STAS hanging system and a range of display plinths, as well as a small shop

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Ruth McCabe

11th May 2022 By Jade Nice

From her studio in Wenhaston, Ruth McCabe is part of Suffolk Open Studios June event again this year.

Studio open dates are:
June 2 to 5 inc. covering the 2 new Bank Holidays as well as that weekend.
June 18-19
June 25-26
11 to 4pm each day.

New series of work can always be seen and discussed, and throughout 2022 Ruth is continuing her sale of retrospective work at considerably reduced prices.

In addition the Garden Art Trail will be open, with quizzes for younger visitors.

At 10.30 on any open day, and by prior arrangement, for groups of 3 or 4  people, Ruth is happy to  discuss her approaches to making art and any assistance she might offer to others.

rc4619@icloud or 07426 925065 for directions to the studio.

 

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Craftco – May

11th May 2022 By Jade Nice

Craftco poster

Craftco Exhibition this May…

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Harry Chrystall

26th April 2022 By Jade Nice

Black and white photographs

Harry Chrystall is a multi disciplinary artist and designer with degrees in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College and Chelsea School of Art.

His work encompasses both figurative and abstract themes which he explores with a variety of materials in two and three dimensions.

His current work focuses on the relationship between artwork and spectator and how the universal and abstract principles that pervade our daily experience are mirrored in this uncertain relationship.

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