THE ISLAND EXHIBITION 20-22nd August
Kate and Flic Lowe are a mother and daughter who both draw inspiration from the marsh, beaches and big skies of this area. Flic a potter working with stoneware and porcelain and Kate who paints on canvas and board with acrylic and oil paints.
THE ISLAND - POP UP SHOP 21st and 22nd August
Kate and Flic will also be hosting a pop up shop over the 21st and 22nd August with beautiful hand made jewellery by Madeleine Spencer and gorgeous Indian block print clothes and accessories by Fleur Swann.
FLIC LOWE
Flic started to make pots as a law student and continued to take classes with the internationally renowned potter Joanna Constantinidis while she was working and bringing up her children. Later after several years as a CAB employment lawyer she went back to college to study for her City and Guilds Diploma in Ceramics
In 2008 Flic moved to Norfolk but it was only in 2013 that she really returned to making pots.
Flic works in both porcelain and stoneware using an electric kiln. She is fascinated by how the internal form dictates the external and the way the clay reacts on the wheel and to the hand. A pot may not be in perfect symmetry, but according to the Japanese idea of wabi-sabi, it may still be beautiful.
The Norfolk sky, the sea, the marsh all inform the decoration of her pots which are often glazed inside with her own glazes and then coloured on the outside with a variety of oxides.
@fliclowe09
KATE LOWE
Kate Lowe is an abstract landscape painter who trained at Wimbledon School of Art and Bristol UWE in the late 1990s. She has led a very peripatetic life being married to an army officer but she remains fixated by the marsh and its ever changing landscapes. These influences draw her home to Burnham Norton to paint. She likes to get up early to experience the sun rises or to go out late to catch the sunsets of the intense skies she loves to portray.
She works intuitively with bright warm colours in acrylics and oils, trying to capture that special relationship between the big skies and flat marshes of the coast in north Norfolk and is particularly interested in Scolt Head Island and the walk towards it on the Cockle Path. Kate tends to make en plain air sketches to capture the fleeting moods and colours of the marsh; the feeling of a bright blue day, a threatening sky or a resplendent sunrise and the rise and fall of the tide. These sketches are then worked up into bigger abstract works in her studio.
Her energetic love of colour is infectious and she builds up her pictures intuitively moving through many layers of paint to achieve her rich and exciting work. Barbara Rae is a big influence.
Kate has shown in galleries in the UK and Europe and has clients worldwide.
@katelowepainter
MADELEINE SPENCER JEWELLERY
Madeleine is a fine artist and jeweller working in recycled silver and gold.
Over the twenty years Madeleine has been making and selling her work she has developed a unique and exciting style that celebrates the visual and social value of handmade, making wearable art for those who appreciate the evidence of the hands of the artisan maker.
Madeleine is currently studying plants growing on the marsh at Burnham Norton and making intricate artists studies of them in silver, some of these will be for sale alongside her signature jewellery at the Boathouse.
@msj.jewellery
www.madeleinespencerjewellery.com
FLEUR SWANN BLOCK PRINTS
Sophie has worked in the fashion industry for over 20 years, specialising in woman’s wear and helping many big and interesting brands.
Recently she decided to follow her dream and passion for block print and ethical fashion, setting up Fleur Swann Block Prints using all her hard won knowledge and friends in India. She works with an ethically audited and approved family run business in New Delhi who she has know for many years, they work with Gobal Textile Standard certified cotton poplin and hand made block prints designed by Sophie.