Front Room
A View From Outside
by Marian Gibb
26th August to 7th September
Meet the Artist/Open View: 30th August 2.30-4.30pm
Marian loves to paint the world around her, in oil on canvas. This exhibition includes outside views from her garden to New Zealand, including India, Nepal and France, as well as the UK and local scenes. Each painting has taken years to complete. Sometimes working from photographs she has taken, or setting up her easel and painting outside at the scene. If starting the painting En Plain Air, she will take photographs at the scene, then return to the studio and continue to work on the painting, returning to the scene when possible. Evey painting means something to Marian. In this exhibition there is a little about each painting, alongside the work. Marian is mainly self-taught. She started painting thirty years ago and quickly found oil on canvas to be her medium, feeling the versatility of oil paint and the way it moves on the canvas. In earlier years she enjoyed painting portraits, but in more recent years, especially after moving to Norfolk fourteen years ago, she prefers to paint outside scenes, sometimes from her photographs, and when possible setting up her easel and spending the day studying the scene around her, transferring her observations to the canvas. She spends years working on a painting, and feels a strong attachment to the completed work.
Main Gallery
Golden Moments
by Sophie Burkett
26th August to 7th September
Meet the Artist/Open View: 28th August 6-8pm
Sophie Burkett is a Norwich-based artist whose vibrant, joyful paintings celebrate the beauty of the world around us. Inspired by everyday experiences, fleeting memories, and the quiet connections we share with the animal world, Sophie captures moments that might otherwise go unnoticed. Working with bold acrylics on canvas, she builds rich, colourful layers that bring her subjects to life. Her distinctive use of gold leaf introduces a luxurious contrast — infusing each piece with warmth, energy, and a sense of calm reflection. The result is a body of work that feels both uplifting and deeply personal. This solo exhibition showcases Sophie's latest collection, inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and rediscover the small but meaningful moments that shape our lives. From snapshots of nature to shared experiences and treasured memories, each painting offers a vibrant perspective on the world we inhabit.
Front Room
Almost Everything: Within and Without
by Tyler Danielle Potter and Holly Rose
9th to 14th September
Meet the Artist/Open View: 11th September 6-8pm
Tyler Danielle Potter's practice primarily involves the exploration of repetition, process, play, impermanence, and control in relation to positivity, curiosity, acceptance, and healing. She is intrigued by the interplay between order and chaos, as well as the complex relationship between mind and body. An enduring fascination with the cyclical nature of circles, holes, loops, spirals, and grids provides her with endless inspiration. Personal experiences with mental health—particularly anxiety and depression—both initiated and continue to fuel these interests. Experimenting with textile techniques, predominantly crochet, enables Potter to enter a meditative state while simultaneously investigating these themes. The resulting work explores the benefits of surrendering to the present moment, forming a collection of peaceful experiences to be shared with and felt by an audience. Holly Rose's artwork is a creative manifestation of her relationship with nature, interwoven with unconscious processes and informed by her lifelong journey of exploring what it means to be a woman. The imagery in her work often emerges from an unspoken dialogue between the unconscious mind and the waking world—encompassing themes from death to sensuality and everything in between. Working across multiple mediums, including acrylic, digital processes, and crochet, Rose embraces a dynamic range of styles that reflect her perception of life as multi-faceted and continually transformative. Almost Everything: Within and Without brings Potter and Rose together as long-standing friends and artists, united in exploring their shared relationship with nature, consciousness, and spirituality. While their artistic languages differ in some respects, they deeply integrate and connect in others—just as two friends do. One practice engages more with abstraction, colour, and textiles, while the other is centred on the human figure and its expressive potential. Together, their work speaks to the balance between inner worlds and outer realities, inviting viewers into a space that reflects the vast variance of lived experience—through both reflection and connection.
Front Room
Oversharing Elizabeth
by Elizabeth Trorey
16th to 21st September
Meet the Artist/Open View: 18th September 6-8pm
Through emotionally charged drawings, Elizabeth explores the vulnerable, awkward, and intimate parts of being human. Her playful work invites viewers into a space of honesty and reflection. She encourages connection and offers a chance to feel seen, even in our messiest moments. Elizabeth is a Norwich University of the Arts graduate and is currently studying for an MA in Creative Practice with the Make Happen Institute. Oversharing Elizabeth is a thoughtful collection of self-portraits, and debut solo show from Elizabeth Trorey. Leaning unapologetically into human messiness, her drawings explore mental health, female identity, and the weird and wonderful intricacies of the psyche. With tenderness and honesty, Elizabeth creates space for reflection and offers viewers the reassurance that there is strength in vulnerability.
Main Gallery
Puzzling at the Edge
by Juliet Wimhurst
23rd Septmber to 5th October
Meet the Artist/Open View: 25th September 6-8pm
This exhibition showcases Juliet’s most recent work, with a focus on larger oil paintings. Through her imagination, she continues to explore the deep connections between humans and the natural world—animals, birds, water, plants, and beyond—woven together into a single, flowing stream of life. Many of the works draw inspiration from dreams, stories, and myths—pathways that allow us to glimpse the greater living dreamtime from which all life emerges. Having lived in Norwich for many years, Juliet also finds inspiration in the beauty of this historic city, which has shaped her artistic vision. In addition, Juliet will be displaying and reading from copies of her poetry and pictures book “Puzzling on the Edge”. "Although I use a background vocabulary of drawing from life, the pictures on display are mainly inspired by wider experience and imagination, since for me painting is a form of thought. I start with a vague idea, which arises from my reading on our relationship with the world and with our unconscious minds as well as from dreams and religious imagery from all areas and cultures, and then I let the image I am working on deliver as it will." Juliet has done art-work in Norwich for many years, exhibiting with the Twenty group and other groups as well as in solo exhibitions over the Eastern counties. She has used different mediums and has written and illustrated several books of poetry and pictures (her ‘The Return of Inanna’ was published by Anteros’s predecessor, The King of Hearts). Recently, two of her prints were exhibited in a show about the Goddess in Moray Edwards College Cambridge.