Artists & Makers

Clive

Clive Clive (Clive Brookes) was born in Norwich and educated at Norwich School. He studied for his honours degree in Art and Education in Canterbury, Kent before teaching 3-D art and ceramics in Dover. He had solo and group shows in Kent before returning to Norfolk in 1985 to teach high school art until 2009. […]

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Mary Richardson

Mary Richardson   I live in rural north Norfolk surrounded by nature. I have been fascinated by wildlife, both as a child and as an adult, travelling to many remote parts of the world to see animals in their own environment. This has always been a pure joy and something for which I feel very

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Selen Cinus

Selen Cinus.      Selen is an Italian contemporary fine artist born in Sardinia in 1972 and currently based in Norfolk. From an early age, she developed a deep connection to art, light, and observation, spending much of her childhood drawing and exploring the beauty of the world around her. She studied at the Liceo Artistico in

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George Pringle

George Pringle George is a self taught artist, with no formal art training, he took up watercolour painting during lock down in 2020, with initial interest in landscape painting. Proud to be born and raised in Newcastle, he now resides in Norfolk, England. George’s art is a continuous work in progress, striving to learn new

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Susan Lynda Taylor

Susan Lynda Taylor is based in Norfolk she loves every aspect of art in it’s many forms and believes in eating and living as organically as possible. She believes we need to take care of our planet and each other. Susan also hates plastic. She loves colour and texture – the beauty of nature and

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Barry Ellis

Barry’s painting techniques have evolved to give his own interpretation of his chosen subjects. Barry’s main source of inspiration are animals and wildlife, bringing life to the images using watercolour, ink and pastel, sometimes with fine detail and sometimes with exuberant washes with added details, to bring character and expression. Barry Ellis is an artist

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Ruth Mann

Ruth lives in rural Norfolk with her husband and dog. Her time is mostly split between their caravan in Lincolnshire, making art and her garden which she loves to tend. Ruth caught the Art bug having taken early retirement from the Civil Service in 2007. Having experimented with many media, she soon found her main

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Jean Kiekopf

Artist’s StatementFollowing a career in education working internationally, Jean has settled in the Waveney Valley and is now a full-time sculptor. Jean creates distinctive human and animal forms in both indoor and outdoor garden sculptures which play with conventional proportions giving much of her work an abstract quirky quality. Her love of yoga, cats, horses

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Jacqueline Smerdon

Jacqueline Smerdon Jacqueline Smerdon is a self-taught artist inspired by nature, seeking to capture the essence of the world around her through colour, line, and light. While her preferred medium is oil, she also works in watercolour and acrylics, enjoying both plein air painting and studio practice. Her influences include Monet, Van Gogh, Sheila Fell,

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Julie Whittaker

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY JULIE WHITTAKER Julie Whittaker is a British contemporary artist based in Norfolk, UK. She enjoys working in both acrylic paint and watercolours ,as well as coloured pencil. She often uses a mixture of these media in her work, exploring the loose spontaneity of some water colour techniques in combination with the precision of

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