BURNHAM OVERY BOATHOUSE,
Burnham Overy Staithe
NORFOLK
02 - 08th September 2024.
‘When Worlds Collide’ brings together three distinct visions of the Norfolk coastline, bearing witness to the creative talents of three artists using different mediums and spanning across nearly a century of work.
Heading the procession, the indomitable 95 year old local girl, Pamela Noyes who has been painting the Norfolk landscape in oils on canvas for as long as she can remember, which is a very long time.
91 year old Essex lad Colin Kent, who started painting as a ten year old boy, now using predominantly watercolour and collage, creating semi abstract haunting landscape vistas, has a background in architecture. Former president of the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters. He declares every painting ‘an experiment’.
New kid on the block is former paparazzo photographer David Koppel, now turning his lens on the vast skies and dramatic land of East Anglia, after falling in love with the land following the illustration of Miles Hedley’s seminal work on the Norfolk Broads, ‘Still Waters’, back in 1999.
Koppel is the link that forges the partnership, having discovered Colin in a London gallery in 2002 and meeting Pam at one of his own shows held at the Morston Workshop back in 2008.
This exhbition marks the first time all three have worked together.
For Further information please the David Koppel on 0783183837
Pamela Noyes (1929- )
Pamela is Norfolk born and bred and was trained at a very young age by John Linnell of Holt, she lives in Burnham Market and paints daily and has been painting East Anglian landscapes for many years and has exhibited regularly in that area. She has also exhibited at the Royal Academy; The Malcolm Innes Gallery, London; The Guildhall, City of London; Heffers Gallery, Cambridge; The Assembly House Norwich.
She is a member of the East Anglian Group of Maritime artists.
Colin Kent (1934- )
In his early years Colin Kent studied and worked as an architect. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1971 and then became a full time painter. His landscapes and interiors are painted from his memories, feelings, and impressions, displaying the romantic elements and the spirit of places filtered through his own vision and artistic sensibilities. Colin experiments continuously using a variety of water based media and collage.
He has exhibited at the Mall Galleries London, receiving the Linda Blackstone Award at the RI exhibition, and also the Buzzacott Award amongst others. Colin has also exhibited at the Royal Academy London, The Royal West of England Academy, the Guildhall and many of the best fine art galleries. His works are in collections in the UK, U.S.A, France, Germany, Finland, and Japan.
David Koppel (1961- )
David Koppel served his photographic apprenticeship in the rough-and-tumble world of the Fleet Street paparazzi in 1980’s London when his skills captured the very essence of the Me Decade that gave birth to the celebrity culture of today. Building on the reputation gained through the photographs for the book Still Waters, his black-and-white portraits of ordinary people now rank among the many famous names in his portfolio. Koppel also went one better and in 2002 bought the St Giles St Gallery, bringing the best of local and international contemporary art and photography to Norwich. Moving to Norfolk, he began photographing the landscape, captivated by the flat land, the vast skies and the ever changing moods.
His work has been exhbitied both in London and Norfolk and is in several well known collections.
