I’ve been to Norwich before and wondered why I hadn’t visited the castle then. The name should have told me if I had taken any notice – inside it’s a modern building housing a museum – Anglo-Saxon and Vikings, Boudica, Eqypt and a natural history gallery. So I wandered…
And found the art gallery and what a good surprise. Etchings by Rembrandt, paintings by Hogarth, Breughel the Younger, Gainsborough. A special section on the Norwich School, the first provincial art movement in Britain. Artists of the school were inspired by the natural beauty of the Norfolk landscape – artists such as Crome, Stark, Stannard and Sillett.
And then an excellent contemporary art section – Ben Nicholson again, Paul Klee, Magritte’s The Human Condition, Max Ernst, Rodin’s beautiful ‘Head of Hanako’, Gauguin woodcuts, Bridget Riley, David Hockney’s still life, Graham Sutherland, Andy Warhol, Lucien Freud and Gilbert & George. A small but diverse collection. Loved it.
The days have been spent wandering country lanes through warm wind and sunshine to stormy rain and high wind, taking photographs of the land. Although it’s Norfolk and suppsedly flat, it is gentle rolling landscape here. Eating countless sweet blackberries from the roadside as I go.
More little watercolour paintings done with aquarelle pens on handmade paper made from 100% recycled cotton rag – all 15cm x 15 cm.
Art and art doings from Jo Dalgety 