This year’s exhibition brings together 73 artists – selected from almost 200 submissions – whose practices span painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, ceramics, installation and moving image. Drawing inspiration from personal histories, coastal landscapes, environmental concerns, folklore, memory, identity and the natural world, these reflect the richness, diversity and creativity of contemporary artistic practice, offering visitors an opportunity to discover established names alongside emerging voices from Norfolk and far beyond.
Exhibition: 18 October – 5 November 2026
Rachel Anstey-Sanders
Rachel Anstey-Sanders creates sculptural textile installations inspired by North Sea folklore, coastal history and environmental change, weaving together storytelling, memory and imagination.
Craig Barber
Craig Barber’s atmospheric paintings explore systems, landscapes and imagined spaces, creating scenes suspended between reality, memory and speculation.
Rachael Barns
Rachael Barns transforms discarded plastics into thought-provoking artworks that challenge attitudes to waste, consumption and environmental responsibility.
Malcolm Barrett
Malcolm Barrett combines walking, mapping and mixed media to explore coastal thresholds, memory and the changing relationship between land and sea.
Monique Bayles
Monique Bayles creates vibrant abstract paintings that explore perception, identity and the possibilities of looking beyond established boundaries.
Keron Beattie
Keron Beattie uses glass, metal and transformative processes to explore fragmentation, balance and the potential for reconnection within a fractured world.
Alison Bernal
Printmaker Alison Bernal experiments with process and material, pushing printmaking beyond traditional boundaries while exploring space, form and surface.
Chris Blackburn
Chris Blackburn’s expressive ink drawings balance observation, simplicity and chance, capturing the essence rather than the detail of everyday subjects.
Coral Blackburn
Inspired by Norfolk’s eroding coastline, Coral Blackburn creates ceramic sculptures that celebrate texture, transformation and the beauty of weathered surfaces.
Glyn Brewerton
Inspired by John Betjeman’s “Church Crawling,” Glyn utilises textured, handmade collages to breathe new life into forgotten, repurposed, and abandoned Norfolk churches.
Margie Britz
Margie Britz’s abstract paintings emerge through curiosity, experimentation and reflection, revealing connections between observation, memory and creative discovery.
Jim Brown
Jim Brown explores themes of order, change and uncertainty through abstract works that investigate the relationships between structure and chaos.
Safi Butler
Safi Butler creates intricate drawings and prints inspired by pattern, symbolism and the endless possibilities of the creative imagination.
Judith Campbell
Judith Campbell combines ceramics, found objects and natural materials to create sculptural works that invite personal interpretation and reflection.
Bob Catchpole
Bob Catchpole transforms familiar objects into sculptural works that challenge expectations and reveal new meanings hidden within everyday materials.
Rebecca Chilton
Rebecca Chilton creates symbolic paintings inspired by landscape, wildlife and seasonal change, exploring connection, transformation and the natural world.
Caroline Chouler-Tissier
Caroline Chouler-Tissier uses clay and found materials to explore resilience, loss and transformation through tactile, expressive sculptural forms.
Clive Dunn
Clive Dunn’s digitally manipulated photographs invite viewers to look beyond appearances and uncover hidden narratives within everyday imagery.
Rachel Fijalkowska
Rachel Fijalkowska explores water, movement and environmental fragility through photography and experimental image-making processes.
Gwyneth Fitzmaurice
Gwyneth Fitzmaurice recreates overlooked natural forms using humble materials, encouraging viewers to pause and notice the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Rhona Fleming
Rhona Fleming works across painting, sculpture and assemblage, exploring memory, knowledge and the stories contained within objects and materials.
Lois Folkard
Lois Folkard celebrates ordinary women through paintings that highlight friendship, resilience, independence and everyday achievement.
Caroline Forward
Caroline Forward’s layered paintings draw inspiration from geology and coastal landscapes, exploring resilience, vulnerability and the passage of time.
Mari French
Mari French creates richly textured abstract paintings inspired by rural, coastal and urban landscapes, using energetic layers of colour and mark-making.
Rachel Furze
Rachel Furze produces abstract mixed-media works that explore composition, balance and the visual possibilities of process and experimentation.
Neil Giles
Neil Giles creates expressive paintings that move between landscape, still life and figurative subjects, shaped by memory and observation.
Billy Grant
Billy Grant’s narrative paintings capture moments of tension and drama, inviting viewers to imagine the stories unfolding beyond the frame.
David Greeves
Exploring connection between science and philosophy, David’s work captures reality’s aesthetic forms using simple experimental image traces juxtaposed with the human form.
Anthony Gribbin
Anthony Gribbin’s abstract acrylic paintings use colour, layering and ambiguity to challenge perceptions of depth, space and structure.
Beth Groom
Creating curious and ambiguous sculptures from discarded everyday forms, Beth’s practice explores social and environmental tensions between organic materials and manufactured components.
Sam Hallett
Sam Hallett uses traditional marquetry techniques to explore folklore, landscape and collective memory through beautifully crafted wood veneers.
Chris Hann
Chris Hann’s paintings examine ideas of containment, security and place through carefully constructed compositions inspired by modernist abstraction.
Paul Harper
Paul Harper translates architectural and digital structures into contemplative abstract paintings that reward close and sustained looking.
Chris Harrison
Chris Harrison combines photography, collage and painting to explore uncertainty, discovery and what lies at the edge of understanding.
Lizzy Harvey
Lizzy Harvey’s layered mixed-media works draw on walking, observation and everyday experience to explore place, memory and connection.
Alison Henry
Alison Henry creates sculpture inspired by the natural world, reflecting both its beauty and the environmental challenges it faces.
Anna-Lise Horsley
Anna-Lise Horsley creates experimental paintings and ceramics that evolve through intuition, chance and the playful possibilities of making.
Barbara Howey
Barbara Howey reimagines plants through expressive paint handling and vivid colour, balancing observation with abstraction.
Casey Jackson
Casey Jackson creates sculptural artefacts that blur reality and fiction, transforming cultural references into imagined histories.
Helen Kilbride
Helen Kilbride works across film and photography, exploring place, ecology, memory and materiality through analogue processes.
Michael Klencher
Michael Klencher combines experimental photography and landscape imagery to investigate belonging, memory and personal history.
Barbara Lawson
Barbara Lawson’s colourful mixed-media paintings celebrate creativity, individuality and the joy of artistic expression.
Isabel Lowdell
Isabel Lowdell explores identity, belonging and transformation through sculpture, performance, photography and aquatic-inspired imagery.
Angie Maddigan
Angie Maddigan draws inspiration from stones, plants and coastal landscapes, revealing beauty in overlooked details of the natural world.
Rupert Mallin
Rupert Mallin works across painting, sculpture and performance, creating thought-provoking works that challenge perceptions of reality.
Niki Medlik
Niki Medlik uses alternative photographic processes and sustainable materials to explore memory, place and fleeting traces of the past.
Nigel Moody
Nigel Moody captures the character and atmosphere of Norfolk’s roads and landscapes through finely observed drawings.
Russell Moreton
Russell Moreton creates ceramic works exploring body, place and memory, inviting encounters between material, space and experience.
Lo_Mu Artist
Lo_Mu creates expressive paintings that embrace chance, juxtaposition and storytelling, encouraging viewers to look beyond first impressions.
Ken Newlan
Ken Newlan’s photographic and sculptural works explore transformation, impermanence and the fragile beauty of the natural world.
Clare-Louise O’Leary
Clare-Louise O’Leary explores nature’s interconnectedness through paintings focused on colour, reflection and close observation.
Marion Piper
Marion Piper’s distinctive abstract paintings use grids and repetition to create poetic spaces for imaginative exploration.
Clair Robins
Clair Robins uses photography to explore memory, nostalgia and identity, revealing the extraordinary within everyday life.
Mandy Rogers
Mandy Rogers creates sensitive charcoal drawings inspired by wildlife, inviting close encounters between viewer and subject.
Carl Russell
Carl Russell finds beauty in ordinary moments, capturing atmosphere, light and unexpected drama in everyday scenes.
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan uses found objects, research and visual language to explore meaning, interpretation and environmental concerns.
Stuart Shearer
Stuart Shearer creates drawings while walking through landscapes, making the land itself an active participant in the creative process.
Robert Sherratt
Robert Sherratt combines painting and collage-like methods to construct imaginative worlds shaped by memory and experience.
Geraldine Smith
Geraldine Smith creates colourful abstract works inspired by geology, industry and the overlooked details of everyday environments.
Hannelore Smith
Hannelore Smith’s research-led practice explores communication, memory and history embedded within landscapes and places.
Linda Southwell
Linda Southwell creates porcelain sculptures inspired by botanical forms, exploring femininity, fragility and resilience while questioning cultural attitudes towards women and the natural world.
Ken Stammer
Ken Stammer creates witty graphic works inspired by the character and traditions of the English seaside.
Frida Tomasdottir
Frida Tomasdottir creates dynamic figurative sculptures exploring the relationship between body, space and perception.
Rebecca Tucker
Rebecca Tucker’s paintings move between representation and abstraction, exploring architecture, nature and the boundaries of the picture plane.
Brenda Unwin
Brenda Unwin explores colour relationships through experimental watercolours that evoke atmosphere, place and fleeting visual experiences.
Martin Wess
Martin Wess creates works inspired by language, memory and landscape, exploring disappearance, fragility and transformation.
Avril Wilson
Avril Wilson investigates physical and imagined boundaries through layered works inspired by Norfolk’s changing coastline.
Eleanor Wood
Eleanor Wood creates subtle geometric works that explore repetition, rhythm, structure and the possibilities of restraint.
Michelle Wood
Michelle Wood translates ecological research into delicate print-based works exploring resilience, loss and coastal environments.
Rachel Wright
Rachel Wright uses environmentally conscious photographic processes to explore impermanence, ecology and our connection to place.
Marco Yuen
Marco’s multidisciplinary practice addresses the homesick diaspora community, using performative and ritualistic works to challenge established iconography and empower marginalized bodies on foreign soils.
Jiale Zhou
Jiale Zhou explores migration, belonging and identity through painting and installation, examining how home is shaped by memory and movement.
A huge thanks to all the artists who submitted work; the panel had an extremely difficult task of selection.