Original artwork by Vanna Bartlett and photographs by Jeremy Bartlett

More Linoprints For Sale

Vanna is busy producing linoprints at the moment.

There are four new linoprint designs in her gallery of Paintings and Drawings in Other Media:
'Blackthorn Blackbirds' (Blackbirds in a Blackthorn bush),
'Autumn Admirals' (Red Admirals and Blackthorn),
'Beach Hut' (based on beach huts at Wells) and
'Tumbling' (tumbling rooks).

Hope you like them!

24th January 2012

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Merry Christmas from Vanna Art

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Vanna Art.

23rd December 2011

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Watching Waxwings - The 2011 Christmas Card

Vanna's Christmas card for 2011 is 'Watching Waxwings'.

The cards cost £2.00 each, plus postage, and will be on sale at the Norfolk Artists and Makers Christmas Fair at St. Margaret's Church, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich this weekend.

Last winter there were lots of Waxwings in Norwich, including a flock that roamed our part of the city, pillaging rowan trees and berry bushes.

They just had to be captured on canvas!

23rd November 2011

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Norfolk Artists and Makers Christmas Fair

Vanna is taking part in the Norfolk Artists and Makers Christmas Fair in St. Margaret's Church, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich.

The fair takes place on Saturday 26th November (10am - 5pm) and Sunday 27th November 2011 (10am - 4pm) and features art and craft work from a range of local artists. See the Norfolk Artists and Makers website for full details of participants.

This is a chance to see Vanna and buy her cards (including Christmas cards), placemats and coasters and some prints and smaller paintings.

2nd November 2011

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Kaleidoscope: New card design

Vanna's painting 'Kaleidoscope', featuring Norfolk butterflies (and one moth), is now available as a card design.

See Vanna's Wildlife and Landscape cards page.

The card and original painting are available from this website and at Vanna's exhibtion in Norwich Assembly House, which continues until 3pm on Monday 31st October 2011.

The Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1RQ. 01603 626402. http://www.assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk/

27th October 2011

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Vanna Returns To Noverre Gallery

Vanna will have a second exhibition in the Noverre Gallery at Norwich Assembly House from 12 noon on Friday 7th October 2011 to 3pm on Monday 31st October 2011.

The Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1RQ. 01603 626402. http://www.assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk/

15th September 2011

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Flying Colours: Fascinating Forms Exhibition - 1st to 31st August 2011

Vanna's painting 'Kaleidoscope', featuring Norfolk butterflies (and one moth!), is in the Assembly House Art Show 2011, which is entitled 'Flying Colours: Fascinating Forms'.

Vanna's painting can be found in the Cafe Bar. The exhibition continues until Wednesday 31st August 2011.

The Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1RQ. 01603 626402. http://www.assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk/

1st August 2011

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Vanna's Latest Paintings

Vanna has been busy painting blackbirds.

'Sitting Pretty' features a female blackbird on a nest in a friend's fig tree.

'The Cherry Pickers' (left) shows three male blackbirds systematically chomping their way through a crop of ripe, juicy red cherries.

Both paintings feature in Vanna's Acrylics Gallery.

24th July 2011

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Vanna's In Print

Vanna's artwork features in the latest Green Pebble book 'How Artists See Nature'.

“Through a world of captivating images, 44 artists take us on a journey across peaceful fields alive with hares, muntjac and cattle, through bustling farmyards, and onto hills scoured by mighty rain clouds. Nature is bountiful, providing us with the elements, the cosmos, flora, fauna, wildlife and animals, and there is no group more adept at capturing the essence of each, than ever-observant and talented artists. Enjoy!”

8th July 2011

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Vanna's Latest Picture - Whitethroat and Honeysuckle

Vanna has just finished painting this acrylic entitled Whitethroat and Honeysuckle.

The painting features a North Norfolk hedge full of dog rose and honeysuckle, with a Whitethroat perched on top.

The painting appears in Vanna's Acrylics Gallery.

29th June 2011

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Exposure Photographic Exhibition - July 2011

Jeremy's photos of Grapes Hill Community Garden will be on display at the 2011 Exposure photographic exhibition. This takes place from Tuesday 5th July until Saturday 16th July (open daily except Monday 11th July) at St. Margaret's Church, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich.

27th June 2011

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Golden Gardens - 25th and 26th June 2011

Vanna will be exhibiting some of her paintings in the garden of 39 Ipswich Road, Norwich, as part of Norwich's Golden Gardens event.

During the weekend of 25th and 26th June, 42 gardens in Norwich's Golden Triangle area will be open to the public to raise funds for Norwich Age UK. Vanna is donating some of the profits from any paintings sold.

Entry to the event is by brochure (cost £5), available in advance from Arnold's on Prince of Wales Road and in Waitrose at the Eaton Centre, both in Norwich.

14th June 2011

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Last Chance To See - Norfolk Open Studios 11 and West Norwich Art Trail

This weekend, Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June 2011, is your last chance to take part in Norfolk Open Studios 11 and the West Norwich Art Trail. Come and visit!

2nd June 2011

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Norfolk Open Studios 11 and West Norwich Art Trail Map

The map for the West Norwich Art Trail is now available to download here. Vanna is one of eight artists taking part and if you complete the trail you could win some of her original artwork.

Vanna's studio will be open to the public as part of Norfolk Open Studios 11 between 10am and 5pm on Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd, Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th and Monday 30th May and Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June 2011.

19th May 2011

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West Norwich Art Trail featured in South Norwich News

The West Norwich Art Trail features in the South Norwich News in an article entitled 'Meet The Artists'.

Meanwhile, Vanna is busy preparing for the start of Norfolk Open Studios 11 this weekend.

18th May 2011

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West Norwich Art Trail Taster Exhibition

Vanna is one of eight artists taking part in the West Norwich Art Trail during Norfolk Open Studios 11. We are holding a taster exhibition for the trail between Monday 11th and Saturday 23rd April 2011 at St. Margaret's Church, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich, NR2 4TU. The church is open from 10am - 5pm daily. Admission is free.

7th April 2011

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Yellow Horned-Poppy in NOS11 Central Taster Exhibition

Come and see Vanna's Yellow Horned-Poppy acrylic in the Norfolk Open Studios 11 Central Taster Exhibition.

The exhibition will take place at The Forum in Norwich between Monday 11th April and Friday 15th April 2011 and will feature art by artists taking part in this year's Norfolk Open Studios.

Vanna's studio will be open to the public as part of Norfolk Open Studios on Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd, Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th and Monday 30th May and Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June 2011.

30th March 2011

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Norfolk Open Studios and West Norwich Art Trail

Vanna is in Norfolk Open Studios again this year. Her studio will be open to the public on Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd, Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th and Monday 30th May and Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June 2011.

Vanna is also taking part in the West Norwich Art Trail, which links the studios of eight artists in the Dereham and Earlham Road area of Norwich during Open Studios fortnight.

Visit the West Norwich Art Trail Facebook page to see more information. Trail maps will be available from April onwards.

1st March 2011

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Ruddy Darter

Vanna has just finished this painting of a Ruddy Darter dragonfly.

This is the latest of a series of Vanna's paintings on the theme of "On Stony Ground".

Other paintings in the series include Purple Emperor, Sea Bindweed, St. Agnes and Yellow Horned-Poppy.

All these paintings are now for sale in Vanna's Acrylics Gallery.

12th February 2011

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Purple Emperor

Vanna has just finished this painting of a Purple Emperor, seen on a cycling holiday in France.

This is one of a series of Vanna's paintings on the theme of "On Stony Ground".

Other paintings in the series include Sea Bindweed, St. Agnes and Yellow Horned-Poppy.

All three paintings are now for sale in Vanna's Acrylics Gallery.

3rd February 2011

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Vanna's Latest Pictures

Vanna has recently finished two more acrylic paintings.

The first, Sea Bindweed, St. Agnes, was inspired by a trip to St. Agnes, Isles of Scilly, in June 2010 and painted from sketches and photographs o the beach behind Beady Pool.

The inspiration for Watching Waxwings came from much closer to home, when flocks of Waxwings visited Norwich during the snowy weather in November and December 2010. One particular flock favoured the Stafford Street and Connaught Road area of Norwich, sitting at the top of a tall tree and swooping down to raid nearby berry bushes. The flock only moved on once the berries had been eaten.

Both paintings can be viewed in Vanna's Acrylics Gallery.

 

21st January 2011

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North American Sales

Sets of some of Vanna and Jeremy's cards and prints are now for sale online to customers in the United States and Canada. Please visit the Wellwritten Enterprises, Inc. website to purchase.

2nd January 2011

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Merry Christmas from Vanna Art

Vanna and Jeremy wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We'd like to thank everyone who has bought our work during 2010 and we hope to see you again in 2011.

24th December 2010

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Completed! - Norfolk Hedge series

Vanna has now completed her Norfolk Hedge series. You can see a couple of the paintings in her Acrylics Gallery.

15th December 2010

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Work In Progress - Norfolk Hedge series

Vanna is supposed to be working on a series of paintings on the theme of 'On Stony Ground' - Yellow Horned-Poppy is the first one.

However, she has been sidetracked by a stretch of Norfolk Hedge and is working on several paintings depicting elements of it.

Details of one of these paintings is shown on the left and another, Autumn Hedge, is in Vanna's Acrylics Gallery.

6th December 2010

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Jeremy's Photographs at The Green Grocers

Vanna's exhibition at Norwich Playhouse has just finished but until Friday 31st December 2010, a selection of Jeremy's photographs will be on display in the café in The Green Grocers, Earlham House Shops, Earlham Road, Norwich, NR2 3PO. Tel no: 01603 250000.

29th November 2010

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Vanna's Exhibition at Norwich Playhouse - November 2010

Until Sunday 28th November 2010, a selection of Vanna's watercolours and acrylics is on display in the Upper and Lower Galleries at Norwich Playhouse (shown left), 42 - 58 St. George's Street, Norwich, NR3 1AB.

And until Tuesday 2nd November, to Friday 31st December 2010, a selection of Jeremy's photographs will be on display in the café in The Green Grocers, Earlham House Shops, Earlham Road, Norwich, NR2 3PO. Tel no: 01603 250000.

7th November 2010

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Goldfinches and Teazels

Vanna's latest acrylic painting, of Goldfinches and Teazels, is in our Acrylics Gallery.

"Late September. The wind is at our backs and the clouds on the horizon are laden with rain. The little churchyard at Rye Harbour has a lonesome air. The day is cold and grey, the drab shades of summer's end are as yet unburnished by the colourful changes that will herald autumn."

Read more in The Bigger Picture.

6th November 2010

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New Card Design - Winter Apples, Fieldfares and Redwing

Vanna's acrylic painting Winter Apples, Fieldfares and Redwing is now available as a square card on our Wildlife and Landscape cards page.

"January 2010. The allotments in winter have a beauty and appeal all their own. Much of the soil is bare or covered with a neglected sprawl of weeds and an air of abandonment hangs over the patched sheds, listing water butts and compost bins and collapsing bean frames. But the land is still sustaining - rows of hard green cabbages and the stiff upright stalks of buttoned sprouts fill a corner or two on most plots." Read more...

4th November 2010

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Grapes Hill Community Garden Fundraising Christmas Cards

Vanna has produced the design for this year's Grapes Hill Community Garden fundraising Christmas card, 'Robin on Flowerpot'.

The cards are available from the Grapes Hill Community Garden website.

Last year's 'Partridge in a Pear Tree' (also by Vanna) is for sale too.

Vanna will be selling the cards on her stall at Earlham House Shops in Norwich, between 10am and 3pm on Sunday 14th November and Sunday 12th December 2010.

23rd October 2010

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We've Redesigned Our Online Shop

We have redesigned our Online Shop.

Our most popular cards and linoprints are available as single items. Coasters and placemats are still available in sets.

19th October 2010

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Earlham House Shops Farmers' Market

Vanna will have a stall at this Sunday's Farmers' Market (10th October 2010) at Earlham House Shops in Norwich, between 10am and 3pm.
She will be selling her cards as well as some of her linoprints and Jeremy's photos. Come and visit!

5th October 2010

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Work In Progress - Yellow Horned-Poppy

Vanna is currently working on an acrylic painting of a Yellow Horned-Poppy.

These poppies grow in profusion on shingle beaches around our coast, such as Cley Shingle Bank in North Norfolk, where the sketch for this picture was done.

Update 17th October: It's finished!

 

3rd October 2010, updated 17th October 2010

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New Card Design - Butterfly Bush

Vanna's latest acrylic painting, Butterfly Bush, is now available as a square card.

It features a Buddleia bush covered in butterflies - three Red Admirals, a Large White, a Small Tortoiseshell and a Comma - and a Silver Y moth.

The composition is based on sketches made on Vanna's allotment.

The original painting is also for sale.

1st October 2010

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"Nature's Bounty" at Norwich Assembly House

We are now in the last week of Vanna's "Nature's Bounty" exhibition in the Noverre Gallery at Norwich Assembly House.

The exhibition features over forty of Vanna's paintings including acrylics (pictured left), watercolours and linoprints.

All the paintings and linoprints are for sale, as well as greetings cards and limited edition giclée prints of her Blackbirds and Berries painting.

The exhibition continues daily until Thursday 23rd September 2010. The Assembly House is in Theatre Street, Norwich, NR2 1RQ. Visit their website for more details.

18th September 2010

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Vanna appears in the EDP Sunday magazine

Vanna is featured in this week's "EDP Sunday" magazine, printed as part of today's "Eastern Daily Press" newspaper. You can view the photos taken for the feature as a slideshow on the Archant Norfolk website (opens in a new window).

11th September 2010

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Coming Soon: "Nature's Bounty" at Norwich Assembly House

Vanna's next exhibition, entitled "Nature's Bounty", will be held between Thursday 2nd and Thursday 23rd September 2010 at Norwich Assembly House (pictured left).

The venue will be the Noverre Gallery.

The Assembly House is in Theatre Street, Norwich, NR2 1RQ. Visit their website for more details.

14th August 2010

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Red Admirals and Buddleia

Vanna's latest acrylic painting is of Red Admirals and Buddleia flowers.

Buddleia davidii, sometimes known as the "Butterfly Bush", is very attractive to butterflies and moths.

There are lots of Buddleia bushes on the allotments, of many different shades.

Vanna's painting is on a 10" x 14" canvas.

 

13th August 2010

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Cosmos Flowers

Vanna's latest acrylic painting is of Cosmos flowers from our allotment.

The flowers are very popular with bees and excellent for cutting.

 

 

31st July 2010

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Poppies and cornfield flowers

Vanna's latest acrylic paintings are of cornfield flowers and poppies.

We always allow some poppies, cornflowers and corn marigolds to flower on our allotment and this summer they have been fantastic, though the poppies drop their petals in the heat of the afternoon.

They are joined by lesser bindweed, which is less welcome but nonetheless very pretty.

12th July 2010

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Exposure - Photographic Exhibition

Jeremy's photographs will feature in the Exposure Photographic Exhibition.

This will be held in St. Margaret's Church, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich, NR2 4AQ from Tuesday 6th July to Saturday 17th July 2010.

Opening times: 10am - 5pm. Closed on Mondays. Admission is free.

View the photo gallery for the exhibition here (opens in a new window).

1st July 2010

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Successful Norfolk Open Studios

Vanna has just finished her first Norfolk Open Studios. This was very successful, with a number of sales and some very good feedback.

Thanks to everyone who came along and made it such an enjoyable event. Vanna hopes to take part again next year.

If you missed the event, you can still visit her studio by appointment. You can see (and buy) Vanna's linoprints in the cafe at The Green Grocers, Earlham House Shops, Earlham Road, Norwich, until 11th July 2010.

1st June 2010

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Norfolk Open Studios

Vanna is taking part in Norfolk Open Studios this year. Her acrylic painting The Hunting of the Wren featured in the Norwich Taster Exhibition at The Forum in Norwich from Saturday 8th to Thursday 13th May 2010.

Her studio (12 Helena Road, Norwich, NR2 3BZ) is open between 10am and 5pm on Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23rd, Saturday 29th, Sunday 30th, Monday 31st May 2010 and by appointment.

A wide range of pictures will be on sale, ranging from large acrylics to detailed watercolours of flowers, fruit and vegetables and some very affordable lino prints - like 'Dandelion Girls' (left).

 

2nd May 2010, updated 19th May 2010

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Bird of Paradise Flowers

Vanna's latest painting is of Bird of Paradise flowers, Strelitzia reginae.

See Vanna's Acrylics gallery.

 

 

30th April 2010

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Four New Card Designs

Vanna has produced four new greetings cards.

There are three watercolours of butterflies, 'Painted Lady on Sea Buckthorn', 'Comma on Bramble' and 'Red Admiral on Blackthorn' and the pen and ink drawing 'Wildlife Window'.

You can find them on the Wildlife and Landscape Cards page.

 

24th April 2010

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Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions

Jeremy's photos are currently on show at the Art of Norwich 11 Exhibition and in July will appear at Norwich's Exposure Photographic Exhibition.

Vanna will welcome visitors in May as part of Norfolk Open Studios and is taking part in the Norwich Taster Exhibition at The Forum. In September she has an exhibition at Norwich Assembly House and then in November at Norwich Playhouse.

Click here for more details.

20th April 2010

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Vanna's Linoprints

Some of Vanna's linoprints, including 'Steall sheep' (pictured) will be for sale in the cafe at The Green Grocers, Norwich, from 19th April until early June 2010.

The Green Grocers, Earlham House Shops, Earlham Road, Norwich, NR2 3PO. Tel no: 01603 250000.

 

19th April 2010

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Blackcap and Spring Blossom

Vanna's latest painting.

A spring morning on Sweetbriar Marshes in Norwich.

There is a chill in the air but the sunshine is strong and a blackcap sings from the depths of a cherry plum bush.

See Vanna's Acrylics gallery.

18th April 2010

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From the Woods to the Sea (Art of Norwich 11 Exhibition)

A selection of Jeremy's photographs, entitled "From the Woods to the Sea" will feature in April's Art of Norwich 11 Exhibition.

The exhibition runs from Monday 12th - Saturday 24th April 2010, in St. Margaret's Church, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich, NR2 4AQ.

Opening times: 10am - 5pm. (12 - 3.30pm on Sunday). Admission is free.

View the exhibition's photo gallery here (opens in a new window).

14th March 2010

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Say It With Flowers

Vanna's mini exhibition of watercolour flower paintings in the cafe at The Green Grocers, Norwich, continues until the middle of April 2010.

The Green Grocers, Earlham House Shops, Earlham Road, Norwich, NR2 3PO. Tel no: 01603 250000.

14th March 2010, updated 4th April 2010

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Art of Norwich 10 Exhibition

A small number of Vanna's paintings will feature in the Art of Norwich 10 Exhibition, which starts today and runs until Saturday 13th March 2010.

This exciting exhibition is being held in St. Margaret's Church, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich, NR2 4AQ.

Opening times: 10am - 5pm. (12 - 3.30pm on Sunday 7th March.)

Admission is free.

 

1st March 2010

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Site Upgraded

We've just upgraded our website, with bigger and brighter pictures. If you've visited before, you may need to refresh your browser to see the new pages. We'd love to hear your feedback on the site.

11th February 2010

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Gathering Aeshnas

Vanna's latest acrylic painting. Every September Migrant Hawker dragonflies (Aeshna mixta) gather in the sunshine at the top of our garden. Vanna sketched them and worked the sketches into a painting.

View more of Vanna's acrylics.

1st February 2010

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The Chickens Are Back!

We sold out of our popular chickens placemats at Christmas.

This morning a new batch arrived, so now we have lots of chickens placemats and coasters, looking for a new home!

Find out more... or buy in our Online Shop.

12th January 2010

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2009 Watercolours

Vanna has finished painting her series of watercolour studies of butterflies and berries.

These have been added to her watercolour gallery along with other paintings from last year, such as Clematis "Bee's Jubilee" 1, shown here.

6th January 2010

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Winter Apples, Fieldfares and Redwing

Vanna's latest acrylic painting is entitled "Winter Apples, Fieldfares and Redwing".

"The shortest day is heralded by flocks of winter thrushes - the boisterous rattling chack of groups of Fieldfares which billow up from feasting on the apples as I approach." Read more in The Bigger Picture.

4th January 2010

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Photographs at The Green Grocers

October 2009 - end of January 2010: A small exhibition of Jeremy's photos is being held in the cafe at The Green Grocers, Earlham House Shops, Earlham Road, Norwich. Jeremy's scenes of Holkham Beach have now sold and been replaced by spring flowers.

28th December 2009

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Exhibition at Norwich Puppet Theatre

14 December 2009 - 2 January 2010: Norwich Puppet Theatre held an exhibition of Vanna's acrylic paintings in its Upper Octagon Gallery.

The exhibition is now over - thanks to everyone who went along.

14th December 2009 (updated 3rd January 2010)

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Great Black-backed Gull and Sanderlings

Vanna's latest acrylic painting is entitled "Great Black-backed Gull and Sanderlings" and was inspired by a trip to Titchwell beach in north Norfolk in October 2009.

The gull is massive in relation to the sanderlings, and looks rather like a mother hen with chicks.

27th November 2009

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Painted Lady On Sea Buckthorn

Inspired by a beautiful hedgerow harvest and autumn lingering butterflies, Vanna is currently painting a series of watercolour studies featuring colourful butterflies and berry-bearing bushes.

The first painting in the series is "Painted Lady on Sea Buckthorn", shown here.

 

24th October 2009

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Garden Organic Article

Vanna's pictures, including this watercolour painting of dried Borlotti and Poletschka beans, feature in the Autumn 2009 edition of the Garden Organic magazine, "The Organic Way".

 

1st October 2009

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