Jean Kiekopf - Sculpture Artist

I spent my childhood years in Australia, as a wild, highly spirited child. I was always out exploring and enjoying the wide open spaces. Now, 60 years later, following many years in the education sector working around the world in Botswana Africa, South East Asia, India, North Africa and Middle East, I have settled in the wide open spaces of the Waveney Valley, Suffolk. I am close to family and enjoy exploring the joys of a lifetime of travel and yoga in my contemporary mixed media human sculptures. I am outgoing and love people and singing in a rock band, but love to balance this with peaceful reflective time  in my studio, creating personalised sculptures for people to enjoy.

Elizabeth SolArt

Elizabeth is a well known Watercolour artist who paints landscapes, seascapes and holds several workshops in the the Norwich area

THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH ART CIRCLE

The Circle began as the Norwich Art Circle in 1885, following Crome & Cotman's famous Norwich Society of Artists.
It acquired its full title about forty years later when it merged with the Woodpeckers Art Club, presided over by Nugent Monck. After this, its members increased dramatically. The NNAC has included artists of national and international acclaim such as Arnesby Brown, Alfred Munnings, Jeffery Camp, Michael Andrews, Bernard Meadows, Edward Seago, Bernard Reynolds and Ian Houston.

The Circle is open to anyone over the age of 17, who is interested in the practice or appreciation of the visual arts and who has connections with East Anglia. Many members have had formal art training, others pursue drawing, painting, printmaking, or sculpture as a pastime. Others simply enjoy learning more about the subject they have always loved. This wide intake leads to a lively exchange of ideas and techniques, providing influences of mutual benefit.

The NNAC offers a programme of interesting events - usually one activity each month. These include lectures and demonstrations, discussions and criticisms, sketching outings, life classes, workshops, social events and exhibitions of members selected work.

The Circle is run by a Council democratically elected at its Annual General Meeting. The Council organises the yearly programme, and selects the work for the members' exhibitions. 

The NNAC is proud of its achievements and its democratic system which has served it well for over one hundred years.

The Harleston & Waveney Art Trail (also known as HWAT) is a diverse and lively community of professional artists who live and work in the beautiful Waveney Valley, all within reach of Harleston, a small market town on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Harleston & Waveney Art Trail has taken place every summer since 2004. Each year we open our studios and workshops for two or three consecutive weekends.

Entry to all studios and workshops is free, all visitors are very welcome with no pressure to buy, and work can be purchased direct from the artists. All the studios are within ten miles of Harleston: you can tour by bike, on foot or by car (we hope the weather will be nice, and the roses out!). 

The many art forms pursued by our artists include drawings, paintings, print making, sculpture, textiles, bookbinding, and ceramics.

HWAT also usually holds an additional group exhibition in the area, often in the autumn. HWAT members work can also be seen in many other local and regional galleries.