Selected Artists for 2009

Anne Holness - painter

Anne was originally trained in Engineering Drawing and Illustration. She has since studied at Norwich School of Art and Design and has worked for the Norfolk Museum Service as a conservationist and illustrator. Her archaeological images have been published in a number of books and journals. Her paintings cover a wide range of subjects from landscape through to portraiture and have been exhibited in London, the Lake District and Norfolk.

Felicity Hoyle - ceramicist

Jenny Proudfoot- painter

Self taught and then a student of David Feather, Jenny has held several very successful local exhibitions. Working mainly in oils she takes her inspiration from the local landscape.

Yvonne Autie - silversmith

Kerry Buck BA(hons) - painter/printmaker

Kerry has been a professional Artist and Illustrator since graduating from the Norwich School of Art and Design in 1997. Since that time she has worked for many different clients including Hodder and Stoughton Children's Books, The Museums' Association, Which, and Guinness.

She has also exhibited widely and has paintings and hand-made prints in private collections around the world.

Chris Hollick - painter/maker

Chris is completely self taught & has recently moved to mid-Norfolk where the coast and countryside of East Anglia provide great inspiration. He paints mainly in watercolour but also in acrylic, and designs and produces a variety of woodcraft items.

Exhibitions and galleries:
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
Royal Society of British Artists
Medici Gallery
Sunday Times Singer Friedlander Exhibition

Enid Clarke - miniaturist

Enid Clarke is a Norfolk born artist specialising in miniatures. As well as exhibiting in the major London Galleries, Enid has sold to many well known members of the public and her work is in private collections around the world.

Her work was accepted and hung in the Royal Miniature Society's annual Exhibitions and she is a full member of that society.

Since 1987 her paintings have appeared in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibitions including 2006.
1989 The Rose Bowl Award for Best Miniature from the Society of Miniaturists in Yorkshire
1990 Gold Bowl Honourable Mention from the Royal Miniature Society
1997 Certificate of Excellence for an 'Outstanding Set of Miniatures' from the Llewellyn Alexander's Exhibition of 800 works.
1999 Runner-up for 'Best Set of Six Miniatures' in the Royal Miniature Society Annual Exhibition
2000 Invited Exhibitor at the World Exhibition of Miniatures, Tasmania, Australia
2004 Exhibited in the World Exhibition of Miniatures at the Smithsonian Complex, Washington D.C. USA

Gwyn Jones - painter/printmaker

Gwyn runs a framing workshop and gallery in Wicklewood, and has painted for most of his life. His love of the local countryside and East Anglian coastline is demonstrated in his oils, watercolours and printmaking.

Jean Cavanagh - painter

Jean has been painting, mainly in watercolour, for several years. She previously lived in Edinburgh where soft pink light infused the landscape and coastline of Fife and influenced her palette. She did botanical art studies at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh and has, since moving to Norfolk, gained experience in landscape painting with June Cole, previously of The Royal Miniature Society and the Society of Women Artists. Jean has particular admiration for the work of the Victorian painters.

Liz Mace - painter

Liz lives and works near Shipdham in Norfolk, although she was originally from Rochester in Kent where she still exhibits at the Frances Iles Gallery. Village and county shows, fairs and similar gatherings of enthusiastic people hold a special fascination for her; inspired by the colour, light and atmosphere; by the general bustle, the smell of oil, coal and steam.

In complete contrast, Liz also seeks out the wild lonely places of Norfolk, the Scottish mountains, and Kent marshes and coast as subject matter for her watercolours and pastels.

Liz teaches art and will be passing on her wisdom during the festival's Drawing Day, please contact her to register 01362 821301

Melissa Jordan - painter

Melissa Jordan was born in London and spent many happy hours as a child drawing animals at London Zoo where her cousin was a keeper. After years of primary school teaching, raising a family and helping her husband run a business, she now has the time to devote to her artwork. Melissa has travelled widely, observing and painting wildlife and in 2008 fulfilled a lifetime ambition to camp in the wilderness of the Alaskan Bear Camp, painting, photographing, and studying animal behaviour.

Vanessa Whinney - painter

Vanessa was born in Norfolk, majored in art history at the University of East Anglia and worked in publishing as a picture researcher, but painting has always been in her genes (she is the daughter of James Fletcher Watson) and in her life. She lives, paints and exhibits in Highgate, London and Ellingham, Norfolk. She loves being out in the countryside painting the landscape, especially if water is present. Portraits of people, toys, houses and nudes are also a speciality.