Norfolk's Top Ten Views - The Results!

Over the summer months, your survey responses have flooded in by email, by post and in person to the Gallery...

Now - the wait is over. The Top Ten Views in Norfolk - as voted by you - are as follows:

1. Cromer Beach
2. Views over the River Bure
3. Morston - looking towards Blakeney
4. Salthouse church towards the sea
5. Holkham Beach
6. Brancaster
7. Weybourne Beach
8. West Runton Common
9. Sheringham Park
10 Castle Acre Priory

And the lucky winners of the prize draw to have their own favourite Norfolk view painted by local landscape maestro David Baxter are - Neville & Helen De Spretter of Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire.

The view they love the best is 'The view from the edge of Sheringham Park looking over to Weybourne, with the church just visible and the sea beyond'.

As they told Hatfield Hines "This is Norfolk at her best - sky, land and sea and nature, merging with the village in a timeless setting. This view is so evocative of what for us is paradise on earth."

Congratulations to Neville & Helen!

Gallery 'goes public' at new Gastro-Pub

Foodie fans of Hatfield Hines' artists will be pleased to know that they can now browse works from our 20th Century art collection over dinner...

The gallery will be showing a selection of works at the 'Parson Woodford' gastro-pub in Weston Longville, Norwich.

For those who just can't wait to view - the newly refurbished venue - focusing on the work of local artists - will re-open on Tuesday 12th October at 8am...

Check out the menu...

Click below for the route from Holt to Weston Longville on Google maps.
(Sat Nav users - head for NR9 5JU)

Art all night long at Nuit Blanche, Paris

Visitors to Paris last weekend were treated to a night of spectacular (and not so spectacular) free installations, courtesy of Nuit Blanche, the French capital's annual all-night-art-fest...

Contributions viewed by Hatfield Hines' roving Girl Friday included:

- 'Reflexion!?' a giant exclamation mark constructed of tiny illuminated micro-fans, suspended in mid-air inside the ancient church of Saint-Paul

- 'Crisis' an illuminated shed which promised (but did not deliver) smoke effects, at Square Leopold Achille, in the Marais

- 'Aurora Borealis' an amazing Swedish installation of gauzy banners, billowing in the breeze, projected with luminous images, inspired by the northern lights

- 'Cinema en Plein Air' an all-night open air cinema at Place du Marche Ste Catherine, showing a series of short films

-An amazing walk-through '3D Bridge' installation on the Pont Saint-Louis

-'(M)ondes' - a courtyard installation with light projections reflected from suspended wire structures, to create an animated firefly effect

- 'The Kiss' - an installation at the Ecole Nationale Des Beaux-Arts where two naked dancers, housed inside a canvas-covered box, press against the screen to recreate elements from celebrated sculpture. Also at the same venue, a spectacular glass room within which actors pose inanimate - like mannequins of the 1940s - until a spectator is invited to enter, to interact with them.