Exhibition programme
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2025 – a year of great exhibitions!
Spadge Hopkins’ work is informed by experience gained during a creative career that involved product design, music and engineering. Currently he works in metal and ceramics and also produces prints using various techniques. His metal sculptures often involve the use of void and shadow.
Alice Ridley is an artist now living in Suffolk, who pursued a theatre design degree at Nottingham Trent and fine art at London Fine Arts. She strives to provide beauty through the medium of oil with her East Anglian landscapes, botanical paintings and comforting interior scenes. For the last eight years Alice has given clients the best possible experience through tuition and artistic expression, with her acclaimed art lessons - inspiring many to a standard at accomplishment, to exhibit themselves.
An exhibition of a group of talented artists who support the World Land Trust, an international conservation charity that funds wildlife habitats and reserves through out the world.
The show will feature paintings prints and sculptures and ceramics by:Bella Bigsby, Kate Batchelor, James Roberts, James Maberly, Rebecca Meo, Brin Edwards, Cindy Lee Wright, Rob Rutterford and Garry Magee.
Ffiona Lewis qualified as an architect in 1990 before becoming an artist. Her paintings, which often take inspiration from the coasts and landscapes of Suffolk, are typical for their bold, dynamic strokes, with Lewis using a palette knife to both add and remove layers of paint. Her work has been included in a number of museum exhibitions, such as Capture the Castle at Southampton City Art Gallery (2017), and The Art of the Tree, at St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery (2016). Most recently, a solo exhibition was staged at Snape Maltings in 2018, funded by Arts Council England. Ffiona lives in Suffolk.
Blackwater Textile Group have spent two years producing work for our exhibition Along These Lines. The result is an individual approach to interpreting the theme, from the London Skyline via the Silk Route onto Angkor Watt back to the marshlands of Essex, via many other points of inspiration along the way! Each artist has used a different theme and technique to produce their own unique take on Along These Lines.
Twenty five new, unique, mixed media works on paper by Ni Gooding.
Cornucopia as an electic group of artists who enjoy developing their work in a variety of ways. Carmen Cooper produces colourful geometric abstract paintings that reflect her interest in Expressionistic artists; Sally Freer makes Screen Monoprints influenced by Suffolk landscape; Sara Muzira works in a range of media including print, often in vibrant colours and Gabrielle Stoddart paints in mixed media responding to nature and the effects of climate change. Something for everyone!
Elinor Bellingham Smith 1900 – 1990 'Summer Afternoon' oil on canvas 101 x 152cm.
Five painters and makers based in East Anglia who work in an abstract manner in response to their surroundings and experiences.
Julie Cuthbert is a sculptor working in North Essex.
Jane Lewis is a landscape painter living in Suffolk who builds a visual vocabulary from her surroundings which is then incorporated into her abstract work.
Sarah Milne is a painter and curator working from Cuckoo Farm studios on the Essex/Suffolk border.
Ruth Philo’s paintings explore abstraction through colour, light and surface.
Deborah Thompson lives and works in Suffolk and has a studio at Butley Mills.
Two artists who share a delight in bold colour and use it as the language for their exuberant works. While both explore colour and form in their paintings, here are two distinct, complimenting styles. Crossley celebrates the potency of colour, form and space in his refined, yet playful, abstract forms, while Bergese suggests a narrative, in atmospheric spaces reminiscent of dreams or magic. Both lived and studied in London before settling in Suffolk where they continue to work.
Tony Rothon was given a place at The Slade, UCL, directly from school when he was seventeen years old. He studied there as a student of painting for six years, 1967-73, benefitting from the teaching of some very great artists including Coldstream and Uglow. Tony is now 75 years old.
Sarah Nutley started painting while travelling for a year around the USA in a VW Microbus.On her return to England she studied Graphics at Richmond upon Thames College, and worked successfully in the Graphics industry for many years.
In the year 2000 her painting again became central to her life, and her former abstract concerns found a place in a kind of painting which derives from careful observation of the world.
Sarah and Tony learn how to paint from each other. They are married, and have lived and worked together in Hampstead, NW London, for twenty-five years.
This Exhibition brings together the work of three artists.
Nel Whatmore – Nel works in pastels and oil and is fascinated by colour and the power it has to convey emotions. She has always been attracted to a wide variety of subject matter from floral to landscapes and seascapes. Since 2019 she has been studying water and has been travelling around the coast of Britain from the far reaches of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides, to East Anglia, Devon and Cornwall.
Rebecca de Mendonça – Training in Theatre Design started Rebecca’s lifelong love of atmosphere and drama. Pastels are her perfect medium, allowing her to simultaneously combine drawing and painting; making marks with energy, fluidity and precision.
Her connection with dramatic landscapes and love of walking and painting in the outdoors show in her work. Rebecca is also known for her award winning paintings of horses. Developing her photography skills has opened Rebecca’s eyes to ‘painting with light’ and has opened a new chapter in her work.
Polly Rose Morris – Polly Rose Morris studied painting and printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art before going on the complete a Masters in Performance costume. Her still early career has spanned the realms of costume design, set design, painting, printmaking and sculpture. As a multimedia artist her work focuses on shared history, folklore and our relationship with the natural world. Her striking lino prints and 3D sculpted butterflies have generated a great deal of interest in her work.
Honor Surie, a local artist working in the area for the last 60 years. She work in any medium that suits.
Dan Hussey, chair maker Uses steam bent local coppiced ash and sweet chestnut for his own designs.
Tony works mainly in watercolour and his paintings capture scenes of the local countryside and the Suffolk coast. He is fascinated by water and in his seascapes, costal and river paintings he explores the effects of light and the reflections on water.
Jo Sharpe – Norfolk born artist is inspired by the countryside and coastline. Her paintings show her passion for painting nature with colour, texture and pattern.
Loraine Wilson – Suffolk oil painter takes her inspiration from landscapes seen in her local walks, she explores her subject with colour, form and imagination. Painting bold and expressive faces, florals and landscapes.
Sam Purcell – based in still life, Sam’s work uses an ever evolving visual vocabulary to bring about a balance of colour, form and composition - of pattern, decoration and texture.
Paula Sharples – works on gesso prepared board and occasionally canvas, with acrylic, ink and graphite and uses a combination of still life and landscape background reminiscent of Italian frescoes with the framing of a distant landscape.
Lucy Perry – Lucy is a painter and printmaker based in rural Norfolk inspired by the patterns, colours and shapes she finds in nature. She will be exhibiting her hand painted Art Vase Slips recently exhibited at the V&A Museum.
Lyn Peters – Self-taught and creating abstract landscapes (often inspired by Suffolk’s big skies) and her own figurative portrait style in acrylic and mixed media.
Jean Cameron McIntosh – I use white earthenware clay. I throw and handbuild my work and I use coloured slips to decorate.
Sarah Baddon Price – 7th to 13th August
Renown in Suffolk Sarah Baddon Price will be showcasing vibrant and dynamic paintings inspired by her Winter/Spring 2025 cycle challenge trip to Cuba fundraising for Art for Cure who she has supported as an artist since 2016. There will also be a small number of previously unseen painting by Sarah.
This exhibition will be a mixed offering as Sarah will also be exhibiting curated paintings by Lyn Peters and Owen J Berry and ceramic sculptures by Kate Reynolds who are amongst other artists in her artists collection.
An exhibition reflecting with joy and nostalgia on the Suffolk Coastline using a palette of Carnival Colours to honour the energy and vibrancy of a Suffolk Summertide.
Freya Barton
With a degree in Textile Print Design from WSA, my path to painting full time has its foundation in playing with pattern and colour and this still comes through in my paintings today.
Inspiration comes from my love of colour, folk art and playing with composition of still life. In my recent works I am enjoying working with the concept of nostalgia and manipulating the shapes and colours of landscapes.
My paintings use vibrant playful colours and play with perspective with elements of pattern and 2D imagery. My decorated pieces pull from the traditions of Folk Art and I enjoy drawing inspiration from generations of folk painters before me.
Outstandingly beautifully, stunningly detailed, exquisitely observed botanical drawings. Awards include – Mall Galleries London, SBA Open Show, awarded 1st prize John Waterman Award for “Best work in show 2023” for Yew Tree. RHS Silver-Gilt Medallist RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show 2021 Saatchi Gallery London. RHS Silver-Gilt Medallist – London Botanical Art Show 2015, RHS St. Vincent Square London. Fellow and tutor, Society of Botanical Artists, Fellow of The Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society. Works held in the permanent collections of The Chelsea Physic Garden, Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh and Colchester & Ipswich Museums and many private collections. Suffolk-born, Guy had drawing in his blood from a very early age converting an old draughty garden shed into a studio and spent many a childhood hour there until the cold set in, salad days!
Jackie Dommett – mixed media collage
Garry Magee – potter
Exploring new aspects of their work.
Nicola Stratton Tyler ASWA is a landscape and still life painter in oils. An award-wining artist, she exhibits regularly in London with the Society of Women Artists, The ING Discerning Eye, the Pastel Society, Chelsea Art Society and many more. She lives in East Anglia and many of her paintings depict the landscape local to Aldeburgh. Her work is imbued with a preoccupation with the play of light and has been described as ‘Contemporary Impressionism'.
Msika A range of eclectic and beautiful products sourced from around the world including framed suzanis, otomis, ceramics, handwoven baskets and painted artefacts all made by highly skilled artisans.
Katherine Barney ceramics– 11th to 17th September
I produce one off hand painted ceramics in my Norfolk studio.
Everything is a one off piece, using nature and animals as inspiration
Brian Coetzee – mixed media paintings and collage
Tobias Ford – steel sculptures
Julie Scarr – prints
Serena Jones – ceramics.
An Exhibition not to be missed.
Emma Connolly is a semi-abstract landscape painter and ceramicist. She is known for her atmospheric oil paintings. Her work is full of emotion, inspired by natural elements reacting with the landscape and enjoying the melancholy of a place where solitude exists. Her favourite spots are Dunwich Heath and Covehithe in Suffolk. She also paints in watercolour and charcoal on paper.
Her ceramics are feminine and floral. She hand-builds tactile, beautiful work from porcelain and stoneware. Her focus is on mixing the subtle, fragile beauty of flowers with the organic form of a hand built sculpture.
Her work is in private collections around the world.
Nature's Palette is an exhibition of the work of four mixed media artists from Essex and Suffolk, united by their use of gorgeous nature inspired colours and strong flowing forms.
Georgina Lorton's
work combines simple forms, purity, functionality and sculpture. The paired back palette allows the shapes to shine showing off the rhythm and flow of her pieces inspired by simple organic forms and nature.
Emma Wren is a watercolour artist but not in the conventional way. She works with vivid intense pigments, using the beautiful flooding technique of the medium to her full advantage, often allowing the paint to do the work! Her collection ranges from large abstract canvases, abstract seascapes, wild meadow flowers to smaller illustrative quirky sea birds and animals. Nature is an awesome mixer of beautiful colours and precision detail, so why look elsewhere for inspiration?
Jo English takes her inspiration from the Suffolk coast line. From its beautiful sandy beaches to its rugged pebble lined shores and quaint seaside towns. Acrylics and emulsion paints are her medium of choice but she also loves drawing in coloured pencil, acrylic pens and incorporating nautical chart collage. She enjoys working on wood, as well as tinted watercolour papers to create texture and depth in her artwork.
Louise Renshaw works in stoneware and porcelain to create delicate, distinctive, organic forms that are both practical and decorative. She experiments with glazes to explore how the firing process produces variety in colour on different mediums. Louise enjoys creating individual and unique forms mostly hand thrown on the wheel.
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Studied at Byam Shaw as a Leverhulme scholar. Selected by Royal Academy as one of upcoming contemporary artists. Mainly paint landscapes and portraiture in oils. Exhibited in : UK (London, Henley, Aldeburgh), Spain, New Zealand and France.
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A friendship through printmaking. Jila and Jude have both been making monoprints for 40 years, as well as paintings and drawings.
Jude makes woodblock prints and etchings as well. Both have exhibited widely, Jila lived in Glasgow and worked at the Glasgow Print Studio, while Jude was taught Woodblock in Tokyo, and has kept up the connection there.
Jila has links with Iran, and is widely known for her work with Persian script and the poetry of Hafiz.
Their work is colourful, figurative, and imaginative, and they look forward to showing together at the Aldeburgh Gallery.
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Anna Dixon-Smith’s paintings celebrate everyday life and the changing seasons. Richly coloured oil paintings of flowers and fruit from her garden or foraged from the hedgerow, juxtaposed with much loved household objects, sometimes with glimpses through windows to a distant landscape or with abstracted figures and birds.
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For many years local artists & craftsmen have come together for Life Drawing Sessions.
This exhibition focuses on the wide variety of work done in their studios.
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Five talented artists from the Halesworth area come together to showcase a vibrant mix of styles and mediums, including oils, watercolours, prints, pottery and embroidery. Dee, Hettie, Kate, Nancy and Sara draw inspiration from the natural world, celebrating colour and texture in their works. Their subjects range from local landmarks and landscapes to still life and local myths and legends, offering something for every art lover! With a wide selection of affordable pieces, this exhibition is open to all!.
Based in North London, Charlie Constantinou is a realist/surrealist painter that portrays scenes in their ideal and with meticulous detail. His background in film, photography and music provides a solid foundation to his work.
Sophie Crockett's solo show showcases her most recent collection of works in oil.
Raised in Suffolk, Sophie Crockett's art is shaped by a fascination with storytelling, nature and the enduring meaning in legend and mythology. She works primarily in oil and charcoal and brings narrative depth to her artistic practice, reinterpreting tradition through a contemporary lens. The collection is available in advance as a print catalogue for collectors and anyone wishing to attend the invite only private view. Please write to Sophie to request the catalogue at: mothbooks@gmail.com or via her website.
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He gained public recognition through his portraiture, but since relocating to Suffolk two years ago, he has created a collection of striking landscape photographs of Aldeburgh and the surrounding areas. His exhibition at the Aldeburgh Gallery will include a selection of landscape and contemporary portrait photographs that he has created over the last 20+years, including images from his international award winning Black On White collection.
