Connecting creative people and places along the Norfolk/Suffolk border
Ruth Wharrier is a freelance botanical and natural history artist and illustrator. She works as a tutor for Suffolk Wildlife Trust, is an advisor for the Arts Council Arts Award scheme and runs regular workshops for adults.
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Website Address: www.ruthwharrier.com
Tania Harrington gives talks on Art History throughout the East Anglian region. Regular monthly talks are held at Halesworth, Bungay, Diss and Pulham St Mary.
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Website Address: www.taniaharringtontalks.co.uk
Jessica D’Alton Goode is an award-winning children’s illustrator and fine artist. Her work is created with a mixed media of watercolour, acrylic, and ink with gold detailing and is inspired by the beautiful and the wild; influenced by folklore and legend and the ancient relationship between us and the wilderness
I am an award-winning illustrator, writer and printmaker. I have a BA in graphics and illustration and an MA in children’s book illustration. My first picture book is due to be published in 2020. In my illustration work, I combine traditional printmaking and drawing with digital processes.
In 2018 I was a winner in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators ‘Undiscovered Voices’ and was longlisted in the ‘Noirwich’ Flash Fiction awards.
Exhibited nationally and internationally: Bankside London (selected for the Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition) and Bologna Italy (Bologna Children’s Book Fair).
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Botanical art and illustration Inspired by British wildflowers and quintessentially English nature.
Laura often illustrated plants found in her garden as a child, she’s always been enchanted by nature and the landscape in her Suffolk home. After completing her BA Hons degree in Fine Art Laura went onto a career as an Art Consultant, selling artwork around the world. However, 10 years later she decided to pick up the paint brush again to document her natural surroundings.
Inspired by British wildflowers, grasses and quintessentially English nature her vibrant artwork documents the wild plants that are fast decreasing across the UK – Did you know that 97% of our British meadows have disappeared since the 1930’s? Illustrating wildflowers often found on the roadside Laura’s gouche and watercolour artwork finds beauty in unexpected places. She creates miniature, natural worlds you can get lost in, just like Alice in Wonderland.
Laura can often be found exploring the Norfolk Broads on her boat with her travel easel, pooch and sketchbook. She regularly walks along the Suffolk coastline… You can follow her inspirations and studio life via Instagram: @lauraandrewsstudio
Sian Croose is a singer and conductor with over 30 years’ experience creating and directing music projects in the UK. She is co-director of The Voice Project, developing large scale, site-responsive performances that bring together community choirs and professional performers in innovative pieces of choral theatre. She is musical director of Harmonium.
I am a traditional book binder who restores all types of books typically from the 18th century for example family bibles. I take commissions such as Thesis and photo albums. I hold a range of presentations and workshops for adults and children for example 3D pop up cards, “face making” and folded book art.
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Website Address: www.booksurgeon.co.uk
Fiona FitzGerald is a Ceramicist and an Art Historian.
She works with clay that she has textured and patterned as she has rolled it out. The surfaces then suggest the subsequent forms that the clay will create as she assembles turn and torn pieces together. The work is then fired to stoneware.
She gives regular talks to groups, at The Cut, Halesworth and at Anteros in Norwich. Current regional and London based exhibitions prompt the topics. She also runs short courses on Art History for adults. Her Norwich classes are based at The Stage, St Augustine ‘s Street.
Joanna – AKA Dotty Scotty – is an artist that currently specialises in 3D needle felted wool sculpture. She predominantly creates beautiful birds of all shapes and sizes drawing her inspiration from the wildlife that surrounds her.
Having formally trained in Fine Art & Textile Printmaking she is able to use her design skills to bring her creations to life, each one taking on their own individual character.
The wool is felted by jabbing barbed needles into it. Firstly a solid form is made which is then worked into: layering the colours, blending them and then creating the stunning patterns that are unique to each bird, all crafted with a single or multi needle.
Joanna has lived in Norfolk for 11 years and works from her studio in Brundall. She sells her work online ( Dotty Scotty needle felt ) undertakes commissioned work and has recently started to show her work locally.
Instagram – instagram.com/dottyscotty8338
Facebook – dottyscottyfelt
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My art is a natural progression of ideas, informed from my inner and outer landscapes. I am interested in how my intuition transposes thoughts into a visual format and how the collection of marks and materials become the sum of their parts. I make my own charcoal and collect soils to use for pigments. I call my practice drawing but this can be on paper, wood, cloth. I am experimental and work in 2D and 3D, and my subject registers the environment in which I work. My argument continues to be that man has a creative spirit with a need to make traces.
