Green Pebble Artists in East Anglia

Green Pebble's Studio Plogs

Welcome to Green Pebble's Artists' Blogs.

Cox, Helen

An exciting and demanding summer is in full swing with the Exhibition at The Upstairs Gallery, Beccles up & running, a successful weekend at the Abbots Ripton Garden Show and fun & laughter exhibiting alongside 25 other artists and a myriad of musicians and comedians at the LockStock Festival in Camden ....
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Dodds, James

Following flu and a lot of printmaking I have been left with a breathing problem. I think it is time to switch from oil based printing ink to the new water based inks, which I have been told are now very good. Have any other printmakers had problems from breathing in white spirit fumes from many years of cleaning of blocks and printing equipment? ...
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Hadley, Cate

I have completed the “Spawn” piece which is waiting to be framed. The textile that I refer to was mentioned in my last Green Pebble plog. It has been built further, embellished and resolved after what seems like an age of indecision. It’s like that sometimes…
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Havers, Chrissie

Painting outside is always problematical - the weather, dogs...While working on a riverbank I was filmed by some Japanese tourists. It was difficult to mix paint without touching the lens of their camera. Under that scrutiny the painting went wrong....
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Juett, Nicholas James

Last time in Studio Plogs I shared with you my completed single painting of the beautiful Reök Museum in Cambridge's twinned city of Szeged in Hungary. ...
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Kiki, John

In my last plog I implied that I would work this year without any more shows, but I could not resist the offer to exhibit at the old chapel in Wymondham, Norfolk. The chapel was originally built in the 12th century as a chantry and dedicated to St Thomas Becket....
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Max, Melanie

Being outside revitalises my spirits and stimulates my desire to paint. I typically begin a painting on the river in my kayak or in my rowing boat, where ever I start it's as close to the water as I can get. The second stage of the painting happens away from the original location and takes on a life of its own.....
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Payne, Michelle

I’m sitting here this week…and wondering whether I can escape? I am absolutely exhausted from work, I miss my homelife, I have an interview with a magazine Thursday, I am working on the new book project with new castings, I am running and managing two galleries, I have my own show opening Friday, and I’m out and out plain knackered out....
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Porteous-Butler, David

Fortunately I live and work very near the river Stour, a landscape that has always been an inspiration for artists. As an exponent of knife painting I find any subject involving water ideally suited to my stye. The seemingly endless winter finds me wanting enjoy the other seasons through my work....
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Tyson, Deanna

As some readers will know, my work is a fusion of painting and textile art, narrative and politics. I respond to current concerns using kitsch. My present preoccupations are with the state of Africa and with consumption and pollution.....
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