English Landscape

As we begin the last four days of Lay of The Land exhibition it is a good moment to look at the artists and makers who have captured the attention of visitors to the exhibition through their work on paper, embroidery, as well as paint on canvas or board.

The artists are: Tessa Newcomb, Paul P. Smith, Mike Dodd, Helen Derbyshire, Will Cutts, and Nessie Stonebridge. All of whom use tried and tested techniques in their chosen medium to produce their work, and yet they each achieve unconventional results.

And we're off...

We have begun installation in the Stables at Houghton Hall. Here are a few glimpses of the inspiring new work included in the exhibition East to East, opening on Sunday 23 April.

Victoria Fenn is a sculptor exploring memories and landscape motivated by her personal connection to the Cambridgeshire Fens, where she grew up on the family farm.

Linda Jamieson is a painter whose work has been closely associated with the North Norfolk coastal landscape for a while now. It is where she spends much of her time. For the last two years her work has moved away from observation and memory, toward a more imaginative use of landscape as a barometer of her own state of mind.

Our third visit to a gallery since the perculiarly anticlimactic easing of national lockdown was to the Castle Museum Norwich, to view the exhibition A Passion for Landscape Rediscovering John Crome curated by Giorgia Bottinelli.