Art hits the streets in Holt...

Thanks to pavement posse 'Urban Canvas', who took their chalks for a walk in Fish Hill yesterday, creating an amazing 30 foot multi-colour pencil doodle.

Today's browsers have been equally entertained by glimpses of a bowler-hatted gent power-walking through the town playing audio clips of helicopter landings from his concealed-speaker-briefcase!

Raise a Glass to Holt Summer Festival...

Holt Summer Festival kicks off this Sunday with a week of special arts events and workshops in store...

From July 25th to 31st Festival-goers can take a songwriting workshop, paint pots, enjoy a blues picnic in the woods or hitch a ride on a free shuttle bus to explore contemporary greek myths in Holt Country Park.

For our own artistic contribution to this year's festival, Hatfield Hines are taking part in the Holt Gallery Trail.

On Monday there will be pavement art to enjoy outside on Fish Hill and on Tuesday and Thursday evening we will stay open with drinks until 8pm for two special after-hours viewings of our current exhibition - Naomi Munuo.

We're also launching a new competition to find Norfolk's Best Loved View. All entries will go into a prize draw and the winner will receive a specially commissioned oil of their own favourite Norfolk landscape.

To enter, either pick up a nomination form in the Gallery or click here to enter via email.

What's Your Favourite Norfolk View?

Tell us and you could win a specially commissioned oil painting in our new survey competition!

Your County Needs You!
At Hatfield Hines we're always keen on introducing visiting art lovers to new views of Norfolk, so we're launching a summer competition to find the most enjoyed view in the area.

To nominate your own favourite, simply click on our recruiting poster to email us the details.

As a thank-you for taking part, we'll enter you into our free summer prize draw.

The lucky winner will receive a painting of their own favourite Norfolk view by local landscape artist David Baxter (so it will be your opportunity to specially commission your own painting for free..!)

Surreal Summer at Hatfield Hines

For our summer 'Spotlight' show, we focus on the work of emerging local talent, Naomi Munuo.

This exhibition, running until 31st July, highlights the vibrant life studies and surreal still lifes of Cental St. Martin's and Goldsmith's-trained Munuo, whose works have featured at The Royal Academy.

Beginning her artistic life in fashion design, Ipwsich-based Munuo has continued to be inspired by the human figure, illustrating it using richly textured, irregular shapes in works which often involve layered collage techniques.

She says of her artworks 'In my paintings, I explore the relationship between the object and its environment...I observe the world around me with passion and interpret it spontaneously'.

Her use of colourful figures and modeled pieces set in abstracted, patterned backgrounds are inspired both by the angular works of her sculptor-father as well as an early interest in Japanese art - with its flat shapes and controlled lines.

The textural tapestries which also feature strongly in her work are interwoven from elements of wax resist, batik, ink, oil, pastels and acrylic - contrasting grainy texture with glassy transparency - to dramatic effect.

This exhibition charts the evolution of Munuo's distinctive style over two decades, from early fashion-sketches to recent canvas and collage pieces. Prices: £125 - £1500

The exhibition forms part of Holt Festival's Gallery Trail.
All participating Galleries will be open for drinks from 6-8pm on Tuesday 27th & Thursday 29th July, so please do come and join us.