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Watercolour NOW

  • 4 October 2025 - 1 March 2026
  • Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
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Watercolour Now explores the distinctive qualities of painting in watercolour. Selected by artist Simon Carter, the exhibition brings together an exciting range of contemporary approaches to watercolour in the Timothy Gurney Gallery at Norwich Castle. The eight artists featured share a fascination with how watercolour can capture diverse and often fleeting relationships with light, colour, landscape and history.

The exhibiting artists are Simon Carter, Christoper Le Brun, Alf Löhr, Barbara Nicholls, Melanie Russell, Mark Stewart, Charlotte Verity and James Faure Walker.

As part of the exhibition, the artists selected works from Norfolk Museums Service's historical collections that they felt resonated with their own approaches to watercolour. These paintings, which are mostly from the nineteenth century, are on display in the Colman Watercolour Gallery at Norwich Castle.

Watercolour is made up of pigment bound in tree gum and dissolved in water. It is a particularly versatile medium and has a long history of being used in different ways. As many of the works on display in the exhibition demonstrate, its transparency often exposes the paper ground and the artist's handling of the brush. These traces of process give the paintings a sense of immediacy that is pulled in different directions, as the artists experiment with new ideas and ways of working.

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