I am a linocut artist living a working in the Breckland area of Norfolk. My prints are mostly inspired by the landscapes of East Anglia and other places I have visited. Many of my prints feature local wildlife, especially on the local fens.
I particularly enjoy creating multi-coloured prints, using the reduction process, my favourite technique. The lino is gradually cut away as each layer is printed and the image emerges. As the block is essentially destroyed during the process, a reduction print can never be reprinted. For more information, please visit my website.
Gill Thornton – Printed. Nature. (gill-thornton.co.uk)
Sonia Dobbs-Orr was born in Norfolk. She gained a BTEC Diploma from Great Yarmouth College of Art & Design and subsequently, a BA Hons degree in Fine Art specialising in sculpture from Bretton Hall College, Leeds University. She continues to work in a variety of mediums from her studio in Castle Acre.
With Breckland Artists pastels will be her main focus.
Her main influences are Degas, Rodin and Matisse.
During this last year, we have all had to adapt & accept a different way of doing things.
Zoom life drawing has become an exciting new fixture for me, & I have had the pleasure of meeting artists & models from all over the world!
Hosted by Life Drawing with Cheryl M.R.S.S , sessions often follow a theme e.g. Michelangelo, Raphael & Botticelli inspired poses. We have had an anatomy specialist Royal Academy model, a model from Portugal posing with her dog & a duo from Barcelona enacting the story of Pierrot & Columbine.
Here is a small selection of 5,10 or 20 minute sketches mostly in charcoal & pastel.
07901645325
soniajorr@btinternet.com
Penny Lindop creates loose expressive semi abstract paintings in both watercolour and mixed media inspired by her local valley fen landscape, flowers and natural forms.
The small elements in nature, the flowing grasses, the tiny wild flowers on their delicate stems, the stones, pebbles, lost feathers and fallen twigs draw her in, and it is these that inform much of her work. It was the small details that were important to her as an archaeologist years ago, and now it’s the snippets of memories and detail that pull her in.
Based on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, with the beautiful and inspiring valley fens on her doorstep, this is a landscape she has come to love. It’s a landscape that inspires her painting.
Before working as an artist, she ran her own greeting card company, Penny Lindop Designs, for 25 years, attending many shows and events, supplying retail outlets across the UK and internationally. She sold the business in 2019, and has been painting since then.
Before her business, she was an archaeologist, working on many sites here and overseas, and spent some years doing research in the British Museum. All this, and more, feeds into her art practice.
Although my inspirations are wide ranging, from medieval and Native American sources to the natural world, much of my recent work had already been focussed on landscape before this rather strange last year.
My Garden Gate quilt was begun over two years ago. It is labour intensive (tens of thousands of individual hand stitches) and I have often left it to produce
other work. However, it is now nearing completion and I feel it reflects the spirit of the last year - seeing things through a grid, gate, window - an unattainable outside.
My other work from this last year reflects that theme - seeing the outside or the inside; either looking out through a window or inside through a window. What still life scenes might you see looking in through a window, but knowing you cannot enter. The colours of these inside scenes are a nod to the vibrant works of Matisse and I have made designs for several more.
I work mainly in cotton, either commercial, or dyed by myself, but sometimes I include silk and recently have used shirting and tweeds. I add texture and a sense of movement by embellishing with free machine embroidery, but sometimes by hand as well. The Garden Gate quilt is hand quilted using silk thread.
I have acquired a rich cultural experience through my training as a museum curator and subsequent time spent at the London College of Fashion and studying for my MA in Textile Culture.
My interest are broad, ranging from Medieval and Native American inspiration to the relationship between women and textiles.
Recently I have been exploring landscape - a theme to which I periodically return - ranging in dimension from miniature to wall hanging.
The small hanging shown here depicting a jay is the first in what I hope will be a series of birds.
I use my own hand dyed as well as commercial fabrics and stitch mainly by machine (including free machine embroidery) although I sometimes embellish by hand. My preferred fabrics are cotton, but I sometimes add silk and linen to these.
Email:Jillarnold@gmail.com
Lyn is a portrait and figurative painter based in Norfolk working primarily in oils. Her work is often large scale and more recently uses symbolism to portray personal aspects of her sitters’ lives.
Lyn appeared on Sky Portrait Artist of the Year in 2018. During lockdown she took part in the ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ project, painting two NHS workers for free, as a thank you for their dedication to their work. This resulted in a Bloomsbury publication.
In late 2023 Lyn had a painting selected for the final of the London Graphic Centre Art Prize supported by Theo Pathitis.
Lyn is a mainly self-taught painter having studied to foundation level. She works from her studio at home and is happy to accept commissions.
www.lynaylward.co.uk
07986187348
Susan Slann is both a painter and printmaker. She predominately paints with oils and uses traditional relief printing processes such as linocut and woodcut. Through her work she explores the powerful connection between the landscape and human emotion, and the sense of ‘being at one with nature’. Relief printing brings a sense of boldness and intimacy, which she tries to convey through her work.
