EAAF is committed to supporting the local artistic community. We do this by giving grants to exhibitions, creating art education opportunities, bringing our members and artists together through events and studio visits and organising selling shows.

EAAF is keen to create opportunities for local artists to show and sell their work. Every few years we organise an Open Art Show at Norwich Castle which generates income for both the artists and ourselves via commissions and submission fees. In 2018 Inheritance was organised alongside The Square Box on the Hill and in 2021, Somewhere Unexpected, was shown alongside a survey of the work of Norwich School painter John Crome.

In 2026 we are delighted to support the 7th Norwich Castle Open Art Show, IN PROXIMITY, 14 February – 14 June 2026. The exhibition will explore experiences of closeness, from ways of looking, making and interacting, to the impact of bringing together diverse approaches in the same space. Work will be selected by writer and curator Sarah Lowndes and artist Daniel & Clara, with Amanda Geitner, Director of EAAF and Lisa Newby, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at Norwich Castle.

Take a look at the work of some of our artist members. If you are an artist, EAAF membership entitles you to feature your work here.

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Alec Cumming

Alec Cumming paints the brilliant colour of places visited, dreamed and remembered. 'My work is a playful, vibrant capturing of moments and adventures.'

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Alexandra Last

With a deep fascination for all things visual, Alexandra Last's current focus is landscape painting, looking at the beauty to be found in the here and now, in both expected and unexpected vistas.


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Alison Henry

Alison is a sculptor living in North Norfolk taking her inspiration from forms, patterns and shapes in the natural world.

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Barbara Howey

Barbara Howey’s work references plants but also reimagines them through the process of gestural marks and heightened colour to create a space which slides between representation and abstraction.

@howey.barbara


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Carl Rowe

Carl Rowe makes paintings, prints and objects. He layers reality with fantasy, resulting in curious and restless abstraction where nothing is fixed or certain.


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Caroline Mackintosh

Caroline’s inspiration comes largely from the Norfolk and Suffolk marshes and coastal estuaries that surround her, but also from travels further afield. Working mainly in oil and cold wax and drawn to the strong shapes and lines formed by the complex interplay of water and land, her paintings attempt to portray the vast horizons and expansive nature of this landscape.

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​Caroline Munn

Caroline Munn's quietly unsettling photographs stem from childhood memories and dreams.


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Christine Allman

The artist applies multiple layers of tempera, creating light, shadow, texture, form, whilst intuitively absorbing, transforming visual clues from the physical world of landscape, offering a sense of ‘other’.

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Claire Cansick

Claire paints our relationship with nature, expressing her emotional response through colour. She approaches climate change issues by capturing images from news reports, developing them into works of beauty and devastation.



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David Jones

I am a painter and printmaker. My prints are predominantly topographical. In my painting I look for subjects where colour and pattern play significant roles.

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Derek Woolston

Derek Woolston is a painter based in Braintree, Essex. His paintings are a colourful exploration of imagination and memories.


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Diana Lamb

Diana's recent work has been focusing on the familiarity of her surroundings, the accumulation of objects{ life] over the years.

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Eileen Coxon

Semi-abstracted landscapes in oils. Eileen's work reflects her experience of the mainly agricultural landscape that surrounds her Suffolk home. She works almost entirely from memory combined with studio process.


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Eithne Fisher

Oil painter and drawer on linen, board and paper. Colour, connection and response to what is seen, heard, felt and imagined.

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Gerard Stamp

Gerard Stamp is a contemporary English figurative watercolour painter.


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Gill Levin

Painter Gill Levin trained at Chelsea School of Art in the 1950s and moved to Norfolk in the early 80s. Fascinated by the spaces between lines, industrial landscapes have been a source of inspiration, as are the structure of grasses and trees.

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Graham High

Graham High's current sculptural work in foundry bronze is biomorphic in character and both visceral and spiritual in its emotional impact.


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Guy Allen

Guy uses a two-hundred year old printing press producing limited edition prints with the technique invented by William Blake.

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Gwyneth Fitzmaurice

She studies the sculptural form of found objects, recreating them in unrelated materials.

Her artworks engage by being handled, either in reality or by suggestion.



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H J Jackson

Veteran printmaker H.J.Jackson creates his full-colour linocuts by hand burnishing using the base of his tobacco tin. His main inspiration is the declining fishing industry.

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Helen Breach

Drawing, particularly life-drawing and the human body, form the basis of my work from anatomical expressionism, to prints, ceramic figures & site-specific installations.


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Jamie Andrews

Jamie Andrews takes from a punk ethos to use satire, mockery and irony to record life in a contemporary world with empathy towards his fellow man and the environment.

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Jane Human

Jane’s landscape inspired work is characterised by a powerful sense of place, with emphasis on colour and a contemplative spirit - creating spaces to be lingered within and slowly journeyed through.


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Jane Sedgwick

Jane is a mixed-media artist and jeweller working predominately with sustainably sourced wood and textiles. Traditional craft technologies and the aesthetics of modernism inform Jane’s practice.

Instagram: Janesedgwickjewellery

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Joceline Wickham

I concentrate on small Still Life paintings. I am interested in looking closely at and paying attention to the beauty and strangeness of ordinary things.


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John Christie

John Christie makes geometric abstractions based on sources as diverse as architectural drawings and military camouflage systems.  

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John Crossley

The work evolves through observation of my external environment, forms develop through drawing and re-drawing. Colour and form come together to create a narrative that engages not only the surface but also the viewer.


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Julian Perry

Julian’s work looks at the good and the bad in mankind's often complex and dysfunctional relationship with the landscape.


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June Gentle

June makes flattened vessel forms. In her Stoneware work she explore abstract patterns and colour. June's Raku fired work uses the smoke as integral to the design.


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Karen Turner

Karen Turner is a portrait and figure artist based in Suffolk. Working predominantly in pencil, she’s naturally methodical and uses a minimalistic, sculptural style to capture the essence of her sitter.


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Kate Giles

Based in Norfolk, Kate Giles' work focuses on a profound and vigorous engagement with the spirit of place : an alertness to familiar landscape, to what is 'known by heart' and the feeling at the time.

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Keron Beattie

Keron’s work is concerned with fragmentation, remaking and wholeness and the potential of materials to transform. He is particularly interested in using traditional tools and techniques to create contemporary work.


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Kirsten Riley

Kirsten Riley’s works in mixed media is abstract/figurative - inspired by mood, memory and dreams and reflecting the changing and challenging world around her.

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Lara Cobden

Lara Cobden is a figurative artist based in Norfolk.  Focusing on memory and a sense of place, her paintings are a response to the natural world around her.


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Lizzie Kimbley

Lizzie is an artist and designer working with hand-woven textiles to create contemporary wall-based artworks. Conscious of the volume of waste sent to landfill each year and the need to value our natural resources, she explores sustainable textiles and circular design.


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Malca Schotten

Malca Schotten's work is about life, labour and documentation and ranges from large-scale public projects to more private carefully crafted drawings. Dark, expressive, energetic, sculptural; evoking visual references to a European heritage.

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Mari French

Mari French RI creates abstract artworks which reflect her experience of landscape through the layering and eroding of mixed media and mark making; creating a rich surface history with an emphasis on space and light.



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Mary Blue

For many years, Mary has focussed on painting outdoors, capturing landscapes that fuse observation with memories and musings. Living on the North Norfolk coast, her work is consistently at the tide line, reflecting on the edge of the land and catching the light on the water.


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Mary Mellor

Mary Mellor is a Norfolk based fine artist making reliefs and paintings.

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Michael Waller-Bridge

A photographer specialising in portraiture, abstracts and previously in holography. Exhibited nationally and internationally with works held in collections including the Parliamentary Art Collection. Married to Rosemary Goodenough & lives in Norfolk.


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Peter Norton

Peter Norton is a photographer intent on capturing abstract patterns in nature. Objects are eschewed, patterns and planes of colour are hunted out and faithfully reproduced.


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Richard Cleland

I am on a mission of continuous development of style and ambition. The assumption being that what pleases me might please others. I have many subjects I find inspiring, but I keep returning to the Norfolk landscape, in particular the windmill’s place in it.

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Rosemary Goodenough

Paints with oils using cloths & knives, draws with charcoal & sculpts in clay. Exhibitions include Barcelona, Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Salzburg and Florence Biennale. Works in collections worldwide. Married to Michael Waller-Bridge & lives in Norfolk.


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Sara Freakley

Sara Freakley works in a variety of media using a balance of colour and composition to express ideas routed in a sense of place and the transient paths of human existence.

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Spadge Hopkins

Spadge Hopkins is a sculptor working with volume, void and shadow, making metal sculptures, in copper or steel, which are sometimes kinetic with lighting.


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Susan Gunn

Susan Gunn creates abstract paintings using natural earth pigments and a traditional binder, provoking cracks and fissures in the works.

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Suzanne Seed

Suzanne Seed is a contemporary silversmith based in Norfolk who uses various traditional and contemporary techniques to create new and original forms.


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The DnA Factory Mrss

THE DnA FACTORY MRSS [Dallas & Angel] create distinctive and beautiful work infused and infected by the human condition. Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors & Chelsea Arts Club


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Val Jones

Val's paintings are about rich colour, light and movement to describe the wonder of inhabiting the Earth. Water as the source of all life often playing an integral position. Moving between figurative and expressive mark making, endeavouring to evoke a sense of ambiguity for the viewer to interpret.



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