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.'
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.
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Alec Cumming paints the brilliant colour of places visited, dreamed and remembered. 'My work is a playful, vibrant capturing of moments and adventures.'
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.
Alison is a sculptor living in North Norfolk taking her inspiration from forms, patterns and shapes in the natural world.
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.
Brüer Tidman is a figurative painter based in Great Yarmouth.
Carl Rowe makes paintings, prints and objects. He layers reality with fantasy, resulting in curious and restless abstraction where nothing is fixed or certain.
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.
Caroline Munn's quietly unsettling photographs stem from childhood memories and dreams.
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’.
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.
Craig is a printmaker based in Norwich. His work explores the urban environment and beyond, searching for beauty in the banality of everyday experience.
Not all, but some of my work references an area between art and science. I explore the aesthetic opportunities of quasi-scientific samplings.
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.
Derek Woolston is a painter based in Braintree, Essex. His paintings are a colourful exploration of imagination and memories.
Diana's recent work has been focusing on the familiarity of her surroundings, the accumulation of objects{ life] over the years.
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.
Oil painter and drawer on linen, board and paper. Colour, connection and response to what is seen, heard, felt and imagined.
Gerard Stamp is a contemporary English figurative watercolour painter.
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.
Graham High's current sculptural work in foundry bronze is biomorphic in character and both visceral and spiritual in its emotional impact.
Guy uses a two-hundred year old printing press producing limited edition prints with the technique invented by William Blake.
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.
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.
Drawing, particularly life-drawing and the human body, form the basis of my work from anatomical expressionism, to prints, ceramic figures & site-specific installations.
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.
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.
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
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.
John Christie makes geometric abstractions based on sources as diverse as architectural drawings and military camouflage systems.
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.
John Kiki is a figurative painter based in Great Yarmouth.
Julian’s work looks at the good and the bad in mankind's often complex and dysfunctional relationship with the landscape.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lisa’s paintings are inspired by nature, meditation, and music. Through layered texture and atmosphere, she creates calm, reflective works that capture the feeling of being in nature.
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.
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.
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.
Martin Battye is a painter of rich and complex abstract colour fields.
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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.
I work in oils and sometimes collage, producing bright colourful compositions. I am interested in the effects of different colour combinations and the visual impact they make.
Mary Mellor is a Norfolk based fine artist making reliefs and paintings.
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.
Peter Baldwin's work innovates within a modernist tradition embracing a relational aesthetic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spadge Hopkins is a sculptor working with volume, void and shadow, making metal sculptures, in copper or steel, which are sometimes kinetic with lighting.
Susan Gunn creates abstract paintings using natural earth pigments and a traditional binder, provoking cracks and fissures in the works.
Suzanne Seed is a contemporary silversmith based in Norfolk who uses various traditional and contemporary techniques to create new and original forms.
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
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.
Vanessa specialises in figurative bronze statues grown out of her fascination with the curves and flowing lines of the female form.
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