Paint Out 2017 saw an en plein air invitational event at the Royal Norfolk Show. Fifteen hardy artists painted all the colour and character of the UK’s largest two-day agricultural event amidst torrential downpours and mud to rival Glastonbury! From fairground to farriers, and pigs to poultry, there was plenty to paint. Our artists were positioned around the Norfolk Showground site, returning their wet artworks every few hours to our tent for a live art auction on the first day, and continually refreshed rolling exhibition over both days.
Haidee-Jo Summers, 'Cow Tent', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 11x14in, FOR SALE
Paint Out 2017 featured a select group of invited artists painting the UK’s largest two-day agricultural fair – the Royal Norfolk Show. With up to 100,000 visitors it is the premier event of its kind.
Fifteen hardy artists painted all the colour and character of the fauna, flora, and fun of the fair amidst torrential downpours and mud to rival Glastonbury! From fairground to farriers, and pigs to poultry, there was plenty to paint. So long as the rain held off! That said, we pushed the artists out irrespective of the weather. (See the gallery)
First Prize-winning artist Robert Nelmes painting blacksmiths under sponsor Leathes Prior‘s big umbrella at Paint Out RNS17. Photo by Katy Jon Went
It took, however, an adventurous, as much as artistic, spirit in each artist to seek out semi-sheltered locations from which to paint some challenging views with overbearing skies and a sea of tents and puddles.
Some artists ended up sharing a sty with pigs, a tent with an owl, a marquee with chickens, the back of a van with rescued greyhound, or the awaiting-judging ring with cattle.
Our artists were positioned around the Norfolk Showground site, returning their wet artworks every few hours to our tent for labelling, pricing, and display in our contemporary pop-up art gallery.
Keys Auctioneers Paint Out Art Auction at RNS 2017. Photo by Katy Jon Went
Sat next to the main art tent at the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association showground the Leathes Prior sponsored Paint Out tent was filled with art made on the day. There was an auction of the still-wet fresh art on the Wednesday 28th by Arnolds Keys fine art auctioneers and a rolling gallery exhibition and sale of paintings from shortly after 8am 28 June to 6pm 29 June.
Our events offer everything from mass public plein air paint outs, to one-day pop-up explorations of East Anglian towns and countryside, intense weekend events painting dawn to dusk, and our premier fully-juried and selected 8-day event in Norwich & Norfolk. Click the links below to view the historic eventgalleries or scroll down for the most recent events. Paint Out Norfolk 2021 coming 16-24 July.
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Trinity Tryptic', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Mixed Media, 7.5x10.5in(2), £110 (£300 set). Paint Out Gardens 2019, Spirit of Plein Air Award
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Trinity Tryptic', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Mixed Media, 7.5x10.5in(2), £110 (£300 set). Paint Out Gardens 2019, Spirit of Plein Air Award
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Trinity Tryptic', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Mixed Media, 7.5x10.5in(3), £110 (£300 set). Paint Out Gardens 2019, Spirit of Plein Air Award
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Trinity Tryptic', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Mixed Media, 7.5x10.5in(3), £110 (£300 set). Paint Out Gardens 2019, Spirit of Plein Air Award
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Trinity Tryptic', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Mixed Media, 7.5x10.5in(1), £110 (£300 set). Paint Out Gardens 2019, Spirit of Plein Air Award
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Trinity Tryptic', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Mixed Media, 7.5x10.5in(1), £110 (£300 set). Paint Out Gardens 2019, Spirit of Plein Air Award
Artist Emma Perring, 'Madness in the Greenhouse', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 14x11in, £290. Paint Out Norfolk Gardens 2019, First Prize
Artist Emma Perring, 'Madness in the Greenhouse', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 14x11in, £290. Paint Out Norfolk Gardens 2019, First Prize
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Foxgloves', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 16x16in, £220. Paint Out Norfolk Gardens 2019, Third Prize
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Foxgloves', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 16x16in, £220. Paint Out Norfolk Gardens 2019, Third Prize
Artist Robert Nelmes, 'Curtains Drawn and Painted', Stody Lodge, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Oil, 9x12in, £350. Paint Out Norfolk Gardens 2019, Second Prize
Artist Robert Nelmes, 'Curtains Drawn and Painted', Stody Lodge, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Oil, 9x12in, £350. Paint Out Norfolk Gardens 2019, Second Prize
Artist Naomi Clements-Wright, 'Parasol', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 8x10in, £250. Paint Out Gardens 2019, Judge's Commendation
Artist Naomi Clements-Wright, 'Parasol', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 8x10in, £250. Paint Out Gardens 2019, Judge's Commendation
Artist Amanda Barrett, 'Bananas at the Plantation', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 24x30cm, £100. Paint Out Gardens 2019, Judge's Commendation
Artist Amanda Barrett, 'Bananas at the Plantation', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 24x30cm, £100. Paint Out Gardens 2019, Judge's Commendation
Artist Sam Robbins, 'Will o'the Wisp ', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 8x8in, £280. Paint Out Norfolk Gardens 2019, Judge's Commendation
Artist Sam Robbins, 'Will o'the Wisp ', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 8x8in, £280. Paint Out Norfolk Gardens 2019, Judge's Commendation
Artist Sue Wilmer, 'Colours of the Garden', Stody Lodge, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Oil, 10x12in, £175. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Sue Wilmer, 'Colours of the Garden', Stody Lodge, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Oil, 10x12in, £175. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Yellow and Orange', Stody Lodge, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Oil on Board, 20x16in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Yellow and Orange', Stody Lodge, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Oil on Board, 20x16in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Sam Robbins, 'Fairy Path', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 8x8in, £280. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Sam Robbins, 'Fairy Path', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 8x8in, £280. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Luminous Light', Stody Lodge, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Oil on Fabric, 20x16in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Luminous Light', Stody Lodge, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Oil on Fabric, 20x16in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Barbara Bernard, 'Box & Verbena', Houghton Hall Walled Garden, Oil, 12x10in, £300. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Barbara Bernard, 'Box & Verbena', Houghton Hall Walled Garden, Oil, 12x10in, £300. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Bishop's Banana', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Watercolour, 10x14in, £200. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Bishop's Banana', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Watercolour, 10x14in, £200. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Emma Perring, 'Yellow Tree', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Oil, 20x30cm, £170. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Emma Perring, 'Yellow Tree', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Oil, 20x30cm, £170. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Irises', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 12x16in, £220. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Irises', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 12x16in, £220. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'First Light', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 15.5x24in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'First Light', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 15.5x24in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Ochre Fall', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Oil, 16x20in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Ochre Fall', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Oil, 16x20in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist John Patchett, 'Amongst the Dahlias', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Pastel, 14x17in, £295. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist John Patchett, 'Amongst the Dahlias', Bishop's House Gardens, Norwich, Pastel, 14x17in, £295. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Autumn Fireworks among the Dahlias', Houghton Hall Walled Garden, Oil, 20x20in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Autumn Fireworks among the Dahlias', Houghton Hall Walled Garden, Oil, 20x20in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'Swift as thought, old as Oak II', Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Oil and Acrylic, 17x18.5in, £390. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'Swift as thought, old as Oak II', Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Oil and Acrylic, 17x18.5in, £390. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Rose and Fountain', Houghton Hall Walled Garden, Oil, 16x20in, £290. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Rose and Fountain', Houghton Hall Walled Garden, Oil, 16x20in, £290. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'Swift as thought, old as Oak', Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Oil and Acrylic, 8x10in, £140. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'Swift as thought, old as Oak', Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Oil and Acrylic, 8x10in, £140. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Gardening Blues', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 16x20in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Gardening Blues', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 16x20in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Terracotta Terraces', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 20x16in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Terracotta Terraces', The Plantation Garden, Norwich, Oil, 20x16in, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Autumn Reflection', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 16x20in, £240. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Autumn Reflection', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 16x20in, £240. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Bees are good company', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Bees are good company', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Under the blush Dahlia sky', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Under the blush Dahlia sky', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eleanor Alison, 'Garden Canal', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 12x12in, £250. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eleanor Alison, 'Garden Canal', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 12x12in, £250. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eleanor Alison, 'Pots by Wall', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 10x12in, £220. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eleanor Alison, 'Pots by Wall', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 10x12in, £220. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Susan Isaac, 'Bricks and Paint', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 50x20cm, £220. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Susan Isaac, 'Bricks and Paint', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 50x20cm, £220. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Wendy Kimberley, 'End of Summer', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Egg Tempera, 10x8in, £180. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Wendy Kimberley, 'End of Summer', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Egg Tempera, 10x8in, £180. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Wendy Kimberley, 'Fountain Folly', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Egg Tempera, 12x10in, £220. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Wendy Kimberley, 'Fountain Folly', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Egg Tempera, 12x10in, £220. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Susan Isaac, 'Study of Hunworth Hall', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 32x23cm, £250. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Susan Isaac, 'Study of Hunworth Hall', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 32x23cm, £250. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Susan Isaac, 'Folly at Hunworth Hall', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 30x40cm, £400. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Susan Isaac, 'Folly at Hunworth Hall', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 30x40cm, £400. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Lavender and Lillies', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 16x20in, £280. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Lavender and Lillies', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 16x20in, £280. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Up the Garden Path', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 16x20in, £280. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'Up the Garden Path', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 16x20in, £280. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'The centre of all things', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'The centre of all things', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Unyielding sunlight everpresent', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Unyielding sunlight everpresent', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Acrylic Mixed Media, 15x15cm, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Karen Adams, 'Terracotta and Topiary', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 12x10in, SOLD. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Karen Adams, 'Terracotta and Topiary', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 12x10in, £150. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Karen Adams, 'Ripples and Splashes', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 18x14in, SOLD. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Karen Adams, 'Ripples and Splashes', Hunworth Hall, Norfolk, Oil, 18x14in, £270. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Amanda Barrett, 'Chimneys and Pipes', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 24x30cm, £180. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Amanda Barrett, 'Chimneys and Pipes', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 24x30cm, £180. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eleanor Alison, 'Rose Wall', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 12x12in, £250. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eleanor Alison, 'Rose Wall', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 12x12in, £250. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Robert Nelmes, 'A Little Piece of England', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 16x12in, £700. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Robert Nelmes, 'A Little Piece of England', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 16x12in, £700. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Wendy Kimberley, 'Moativated', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Egg Tempera, 8x10in, £180. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Wendy Kimberley, 'Moativated', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Egg Tempera, 8x10in, £180. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eleanor Alison, 'Elsing Moat', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 10x12in, £240. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eleanor Alison, 'Elsing Moat', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 10x12in, £240. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Robert Dearman, 'Elsing Hall Reflections', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 7x10in, £225. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Robert Dearman, 'Elsing Hall Reflections', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, 7x10in, £225. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'The Empress III (in her bed of Ivy)', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Watercolour, 6x8in, £70. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'The Empress III (in her bed of Ivy)', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Watercolour, 6x8in, £70. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Robert Nelmes, 'Little Blue Boat', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, , £450. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Robert Nelmes, 'Little Blue Boat', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Oil, , £450. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'The Empress II', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Mixed Media, 8x10in, £140. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'The Empress II', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Mixed Media, 8x10in, £140. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Bobby Open, 'Elsing Hall Gateway', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Watercolour, 12x18in, £325. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Bobby Open, 'Elsing Hall Gateway', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Watercolour, 12x18in, £325. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'Woods in Blue', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Acrylic, 8x10in, £140. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'Woods in Blue', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Acrylic, 8x10in, £140. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'The Empress', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Mixed Media, 8x10in, £140. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Jack Godfrey, 'The Empress', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Mixed Media, 8x10in, £140. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Love Seat', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Mixed Media, 70cm, £480. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Eloise O'Hare, 'Love Seat', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Mixed Media, 70cm, £480. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Wendy Kimberley, 'Reflections', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Acrylic, 50x50cm, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Artist Wendy Kimberley, 'Reflections', Elsing Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, Acrylic, 50x50cm, £350. Paint Out Gardens 2019
Paintings created at Paint Out Holt 2019
Mary Blue Brady, 'In a Field, I am the absence of a Field', Outskirts of Holt off Holt Rd, Mixed Media, 8x24in, FOR SALE, £450
Artist: Mary Blue Brady, Title: In a Field, I am the absence of a Field, Location: Outskirts of Holt off Holt Rd, Media: Mixed Media, Size: 8x24in, £450 Third Prize
Artist Emma Perring, 'Cleaning Windows on the Sunny Side of the Street', High St, Holt, Oil, 30x40cm, SOLD at £340. Paint Out Holt 2019 Spirit of Holt Winner
Artist: Emma Perring, Title: Cleaning Windows on the Sunny Side of the Street, Location: High St, Holt, Media: Oil, Size: 30x40cm, SOLD at £340
Artist Emily Faludy, 'Passing Clouds on High Street', Holt, Norfolk, Oil, 5x7in, £140. Paint Out Norfolk 2019 First Prize
Artist: Emily Faludy, Title: Passing Clouds on High Street, Location: Holt, Norfolk, Media: Oil, Size: 5x7in, £140. Paint Out Norfolk 2019 First Prize
Kate Gabriel, 'Crowe's Greengrocers', Holt, Norfolk, Oil, 10x8in, FOR SALE, £220. Paint Out Holt 2019 Second Prize
Artist: Kate Gabriel, Title: Crowe's Greengrocers, Location: Holt, Norfolk, Media: Oil, Size: 10x8in, £220. Paint Out Holt 2019 Second Prize
Emma Perring, 'Stormy Skies over Byfords', Bull St, Holt, Oil, 36x28cm, FOR SALE, £260
Artist: Emma Perring, Title: Stormy Skies over Byfords, Location: Bull St, Holt, Media: Oil, Size: 36x28cm, £260. Paint Out Holt 2019 Spirit of Holt Winner
Emma Perring, 'Grey Day, Holt Festival', High St, Holt, Oil, 30x24cm, FOR SALE, £220
Artist: Emma Perring, Title: Grey Day, Holt Festival, Location: High St, Holt, Media: Oil, Size: 30x24cm, £220
Paintings created at Paint Out Norfolk 2019
Jude Chaney, 'The Little Boat Shed', How Hill, Norfolk, Acrylic, 15x15cm, SOLD
Artist: Jude Chaney, Title: The Little Boat Shed, Location: How Hill, Norfolk, Media: Acrylic, Size: 15x15cm, £110
Wendy Kimberley, 'Hidden in Shade', Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Egg Tempera, 8x8in, SOLD
Tom Cringle, 'The Watch House', Wells Beach, Acrylic, 50x40cm, FOR SALE, £375
Artist: Tom Cringle, Title: The Watch House, Location: Wells Beach, Media: Acrylic, Size: 50x40cm, £375
Dan Llywelyn Hall, 'Red Roof Bastion', Wells-next-the-Sea, Acrylic, 20x30cm, FOR SALE, £750
Artist Dan Llywelyn Hall, 'Red Roof Bastion', Wells-next-the-Sea, Acrylic, 20x30cm, £750. Paint Out Norfolk 2019 Spirit of Plein Air
Stephen Johnston, 'Electric Eel', How Hill, Oil, 20x16in, FOR SALE, £350
Artist: Stephen Johnston, Title: Electric Eel, Location: How Hill, Media: Oil, Size: 20x16in, £350
Stephen Johnston, 'On the Ant', How Hill, Oil, 20x16in, FOR SALE, £350
Artist: Stephen Johnston, Title: On the Ant, Location: How Hill, Media: Oil, Size: 20x16in, £350
Robert Nelmes, 'Broads from How Hill', How Hill, Oil, 30x40cm, FOR SALE, £450
Artist Robert Nelmes, 'Broads from How Hill', How Hill, Oil, 30x40cm, £450. Paint Out Norfolk 2019 Francesca Vanke Judges Commendation
Douglas Cross, 'Boat House', How Hill, Oil, 40x30cm, FOR SALE, £400
Artist: Douglas Cross, Title: Boat House, Location: How Hill, Media: Oil, Size: 40x30cm, £400
Paintings created at Paint Out Cambridge 2019
Susanna Field, 'Not Quite a Nocturne - King's', King's Parade, Mixed Media, 23x21cm, FOR SALE, £100
Artist Susanna Field, 'Not Quite a Nocturne - King's', King's Parade, Mixed Media, 23x21cm, £100. Paint Out Cambridge 2019. First Prize in Watercolour & Mixed Media
Andrew Horrod, 'St John's Tower & Portugal Street', Portugal Street, Jesus Green, Acrylic, 40x40cm, SOLD, £490
Artist Andrew Horrod, 'St John's Tower & Portugal Street', Portugal Street, Jesus Green, Acrylic, 40x40cm, £490 SOLD. Paint Out Cambridge 2019. First Prize in Acrylics
Sarah Allbrook, 'View From Garrett Hostel Bridge', Cambridge Backs, Oil, 40x30cm, SOLD, £300
Artist Sarah Allbrook, 'View From Garrett Hostel Bridge', Cambridge Backs, Oil, 40x30cm, £300 SOLD. Paint Out Cambridge 2019 Judge's Commendation
David Wood, 'Passion for Period Style, Westcott House', Jesus Lane, Cambridge, Watercolour, 35x23cm, FOR SALE, £460href='http://www.paintout.org/artists/david-wood#buy' target='_blank'>FOR SALE, £460
Artist David Wood, 'Passion for Period Style, Westcott House', Jesus Lane, Cambridge, Watercolour, 35x23cm, £460. Paint Out Cambridge 2019 Judge's Commendation
Stephen Johnston, 'View from Master's Garden (Trinity)', Kitchen Bridge, St John's College, Oil, 20x16in, FOR SALE, £380
Artist Stephen Johnston, 'View from Master's Garden (Trinity)', Kitchen Bridge, St John's College, Oil, 20x16in, £380. Paint Out Cambridge 2019 Judge's Commendation
Tom Cringle has been exhibiting and selling work for nearly 20 years. Self-taught, he works predominately in acrylic and oil.
His first exhibition was in The Old Black Horse shop in Burnham Market. Tom’s work has further been featured in solo and joint shows which include: Fabulous Frames in Norwich, The Mall Gallery in London, The Flint Gallery in Blakeney and Aldeburgh Contemporary Art in Suffolk. He has recently exhibited at and been accepted by the East Anglian Group of Marine Artists (EAGMA).
Tom specialises in landscapes and seascapes inspired by the beauty and big skies of Norfolk and beyond. He loves to paint the expansive skies that are seen over the beaches of Norfolk and Suffolk using large canvases to allow as much sky as possible to be included. In 2016, he scooped a First and Second Prize in Paint Out Norwich Nocturnes and Mixed Media categories, following this up in 2017 with Second Prize in Paint Out at the Royal Norfolk Show.
Paint Out Awards
Paint Out Sudbury – Artists’ Choice Prize (2018)
Paint Out Royal Norfolk Show – Second Prize (2017)
Paint Out Norwich – Nocturne First & Mixed Media Second Prizes (2016), selected and participated (2015, 2017)
Paint Out Wells – selected and participated (2015, 2017, 2018)
Sample Gallery & Works for Sale
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Low Tide Looking North East', Wells-next-th
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Low Tide Looking North East', Wells-next-the-Sea, Oil, 60x50cm, £300. Paint Out Wells 2018
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Standing in the Shade', The Mill Hotel Mead
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Standing in the Shade', The Mill Hotel Meadow, Sudbury, Acrylic, 60x50cm, £250. Paint Out Sudbury 2018
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Afternoon Meadow', The Mill Hotel, Sudbury,
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Afternoon Meadow', The Mill Hotel, Sudbury, Oil, 60x50cm, £350. Paint Out Sudbury 2018
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Red Chickens', Norfolk Showground, Acrylic on board, 60x40cm, £250 SOLD
Artist: Tom Cringle, Title: Red Chickens, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media: Acrylic on board, Size: 60x40cm, £250
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Irons in the Fire', Norfolk Showground, Acrylic on board, 24x34cm, £150
Artist: Tom Cringle, Title: Irons in the Fire, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media: Acrylic on board, Size: 24x34cm, £150
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Flagpoles', Norfolk Showground, Acrylic on board, 60x40cm, £250
Artist: Tom Cringle, Title: Flagpoles, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media: Acrylic on board, Size: 60x40cm, £250
Artist Tom Cringle, 'Wood Carvings', Norfolk Showground, Acrylic on board, 60x40cm, £250
Artist: Tom Cringle, Title: Wood Carvings, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media: Acrylic on board, Size: 60x40cm, £250
Artist Tom Cringle, 'View from Paint Out Tent 1', Norfolk Showground, Acrylic on board, 60x40cm, £250
Artist: Tom Cringle, Title: View from Paint Out Tent 1, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media: Acrylic on board, Size: 60x40cm, £250
Haidee-Jo Summers describes her work as a celebration of sea, wind, sky, light and life revealed in rich and vibrant oil paint, using personal visual language of fresh and direct brushmarks. Painting en plein air is central to her practice, and she travels to seek new experiences and fresh inspiration to feed back into her studio work. She strives for simplicity and economy and to make every mark count, walking a fine line between shape and suggestion.
Haidee-Jo was one of the few artists chosen to record the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee River Pageant with an en plein air painting. Ken Howard RA gave her an award saying that her paintings “really make you see and very often reflections aren’t seen, her work makes you see them.”
From her four-times winning of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI)Young Artist Award, Haidee-Jo has emerged as a multi-award winning sought after artist and was Paint Out‘s first ever winner in 2014. She followed this up with sharing the Spirit of Plein Air Prize at the Royal Norfolk Show Paint Out for her “Waiting to be Judged” painting.
Paint Out Awards
Paint Out Royal Norfolk Show – Spirit of Plein Air Prize (2017)
Paint Out Norwich – selected and participated (2015), First Prize (2014)
Haidee-Jo Summers painting chickens at Royal Norfolk Show
Other Awards
Great Art Award (2016, 2015)
The Artist, ExhibitionAward (2016, 2014)
Buxton Spa prize, First Prize (2014)
Pro Arte Award (2014,2012)
Rosemary Brushes Prize, ABWTB (2014)
Royal Talens Award (2013)
ROI portrait evening, First Prize (2012)
SAA, Artist of the Year award (2012)
ROI, Young Artist Award (2007, 2005, 1998, 1997)
Sample Gallery & Works for Sale
Haidee-Jo Summers, 'Best of Breed', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 12x13in, FOR SALE
Haidee-Jo Summers, 'Championship Row', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 10x11in, FOR SALE
Haidee-Jo Summers, 'A First and Two Seconds', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 10x11in, FOR SALE
Haidee-Jo Summers, 'Waiting to be Judged', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 12x14in, FOR SALE
Haidee-Jo Summers, 'Whites and Darks', , Oil, 8x10in, FOR SALE
Haidee-Jo Summers, 'Cow Tent', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 11x14in, FOR SALE
Haidee-Jo Summers, 'Sunbathers', , Oil, 9.5x13.5in, FOR SALE
Following 2018’s midwinter free event we are returning to Norwich Market, Jarrolds and the surrounding area to paint the seasonal scenes. We’ll be there from 1-5pm and then have a drink together. Paint early for the light, paint late for the lights, or paint both! There is no charge for this free event but registration via our website or Facebook would help us with numbers and racking space.
Moving our premier event to the summer allows us to spend up to 8 days in Norwich and Norfolk, around city, coast and countryside, including seaside and market towns as well as the iconic historic medieval city of Norwich itself.
The Holt Festival (21-27 July), now in its eleventh year, invited Paint Out to open this year’s Festival with a two-day Paint Out and Private View (19-20 July) around the charming North Norfolk town. Robert Upstone a Tate curator judged the event at Paint Out Holt as well as Charlotte Crawley (Art Historian, former EAAF).
Home to 500-year-old Gresham’s School (alumni include WH Auden, Olivia Colman, Benjamin Britten, James Dyson, and the artist Ben Nicholson), this two-session Paint Out was backed up by a ten-day exhibition in Picturecraft of Holt, a gallery and Art material supplier with the winners exhibiting alongside the now well established Holt Art Prize.
Paint Out Norfolk took place in conjunction with The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts1-7 July (painting days 1st-5th, PV 5th, Exhibition 6th-7th) based around the Sainsbury Centre/UEA campus site and painting further afield including Wells-next-the-Sea, the Broads, and Houghton Hall park.
The inaugural Paint Out Cambridge took place 13-17 May (painting 13-15th, PV 16th, exhibition till 17th) in collaboration with Cheffins Fine Artwho hosted the packed Private View. Iconic views, Cambridge colleges, Kings College Chapel, the River Cam – its punts and bridges, the Market, all featured in our first plein air Cambridge art event. Prizes included award cheques and Cass Art materials. View the winners and selected others gallery.
Paint Out Norwich Winter Nocturne, 19 Dec 2018
Paint Out Norwich ran a winter nocturne Christmas lights plein air and social, Wednesday 19 December 2018 4-7pm.The open-air painting and ‘pinting’ event, started out at the Bell Hotel pub and included a bottle of bubbly for the best painting of the evening. Some of the locations painted included the fifteenth-century Bell Hotel itself, Jarrolds, and the Market/City Hall. All three were decorated and illuminated with tasteful seasonal lighting.
North Norfolk coast plein air painting competition. Since 2015 this event has seen workshops, demos, beach public paint outs at sunrise, Buttlands exhibition, day trips to neighbouring towns such as Blakeney, Burnham Market, Brancaster Staithe etc – more information | event gallery
Paint Out Great Yarmouth, 1 Sep 2018
A new one-day event is taking place – Paint Out Great Yarmouth on 1 September, from Seaside to Quayside, in collaboration with Norfolk Museums Service and particularly the Time and Tide Museum’s event ‘Drawn to the Coast: Turner, Constable, Cotman‘ which explores the identity of Great Yarmouth and its surrounding landscape through the artwork it has inspired – more information.
Paint Out Sudbury, Suffolk, 30 Jun 2018
One-day warm-up event in Gainsborough’s hometown with options to paint the town, Gainsborough garden, old railway line walk, the Watermeadows, and more. Great views and amazing local countryside on the Suffolk/Essex border – more information | event gallery
Paint Out Norfolk 16-23 July 2020 saw 400+ paintings created by 50+ plein air artists at a dozen Norwich and Norfolk locations around coast and countryside with a week long rolling exhibition at Whitlingham Country Park and last day Final View. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Gardens Series 2019
Paint Out Gardens in Norfolk ran May-October 2019 and saw 130 paintings created by 36 plein air artists across the seasons and 6 hidden or historic gardens. Prizes were awarded by Norfolk-based Art Historian, Charlotte Crawley – a former curator and past Director of the East Anglia Art Fund, as well as Tom Humphrey and Sophie Barratt of the Fairhurst Gallery, Norwich. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Holt 2019
Paint Out Holt 19-20 July 2019 saw 55 paintings created by 22 plein air artists across 3 sessions from Friday to Saturday morning ahead of opening the Holt Festival at Picturecraft Gallery in Holt. Prizes were awarded by Robert Upstone, former Senior Curator of 20th Century Art at Tate and Norfolk-based Art Historian, Charlotte Crawley – a former curator and past Director of the East Anglia Art Fund. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Norfolk 2019
Paint Out Norfolk 1-5 July 2019 saw 100 paintings created by 27 plein air artists at 5 Norwich and Norfolk locations from coast to county ending at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art for a last day paint out and Private View. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Paint Out Cambridge 2019
Paint Out Cambridge 13-15 May 2019 saw 135 artworks made by 28 plein air artists at this inaugural Cambridgeshire event with Cheffins Fine Art. View the winners and other selected paintings gallery.
Karen Adams, Paul Alcock, John Behm, Mary Blue Brady, Shaun Carey, James Colman (guest artist), Tom Cringle, Sheila Cunningham, Jan Dingle, Jan Gaska, Jack Godfrey, Audrey Hay, Julie Hodgson, Mary Kallagher, Susanna MacInnes, Aggie Matyjaszek, Eloise O’Hare, Georgina Potter, Sam Robbins, Lesley Williams
Paint Out Great Yarmouth 2018
Paint Out Great Yarmouth took place in the historic Norfolk coastal town on 1 September 2018. Yarmouth has featured in historic paintings and its history in art was portrayed during ‘Drawn to the Coast: Turner, Constable, Cotman‘ which explored the identity of Great Yarmouth and its surrounding landscape through the artwork it has inspired. J.M.W Turner and John Constable, Norwich School of painters such as Joseph Stannard, John Sell Cotman and John Crome were all drawn to paint here.
Paint Out Sudbury took place in the historic wool and silk town on 30 June 2018, on the Essex/Suffolk border, home to Thomas Gainsborough who inspired John Constable, with picturesque scenery including the Water Meadows, Valley Trail and River Stour, the old railway line, market town itself, St Peter’s Church, and Gainsborough’s house and garden, among the 247 Heritage Listed buildings. One day, two sessions, en plein air! View the gallery of artworks online.
Paint Out 2017 saw an en plein air invitational event at the Royal Norfolk Show. Fifteen hardy artists painted all the colour and character of the UK’s largest two-day agricultural event amidst torrential downpours and mud to rival Glastonbury! From fairground to farriers, and pigs to poultry, there was plenty to paint. Our artists were positioned around the Norfolk Showground site, returning their wet artworks every few hours to our tent for a live art auction on the first day, and continually refreshed rolling exhibition over both days. View the gallery of artworks online.
Artist Karen Adams painting on Winterton Beach dunes during Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Paint Out™ is an art event aiming to refresh and redefine 21st century en plein air art practice. Founded in 2014, we are the UK’s premier and only fully juried en plein air art competition, celebrating the talents of national and international artists before a wide and growing audience in the heart of medieval and iconic Norwich, as well as around beautiful Norfolk‘s towns, countryside, broads and coast. We’ve also popped up in Suffolk and in 2019 branched out to Cambridge. Many of our events are about extreme painting challenges, in any weather, up against the clock and the gaze of the art-loving public. Come and ExperienceArt, Live!
Paint Out 2021
Artist Kate Gabriel painting Winterton allotments, Paint Out Norfolk 2020
2021’s outdoor painting programme will build upon 2020’s successful and Covid-safe 8-day tour of Norfolk and Norwich with an open air exhibition which saw 40+ artwork sales. In 2021, we are expanding and enlarging the space for more artists and more facilities on-site. With interest from dozens of artists from UK, USA, France and Russia, and half-price and other early bird deals available, do sign up early to join the UK’s most innovative plein air art event. Check out last year’s Covid-19 updates to see how we kept up to date with safety rules.
It’s an opportunity to brush up alongside new and familiar faces of the plein air art community. Challenge your creativity. Develop your skills. Come and capture the height of summer in city, coast, and countryside locations including Norwich, Norfolk seaside, inland Broads, seaport and market towns, historic houses and gardens. There will be guest artists, painting demos, and art world judges, and depending upon Covid, as much socialising as we can. Week, weekend and multi-day choices available. Priced from £15-£30/day – enter here.
2020’s outdoor painting programme included an 8-day tour of Norfolk with over 50 of the 60+ accepted artists still able to attend, despite Covid. It meant a more measured event with socially distancing artists and a masked-up exhibition. Check out the painting locations Google map here. View the gallery of some of the finished artworks. Well over 400 paintings were created and the three judges: Sarah Flynn (Sworders), Amanda Geitner (EAAF) and artist Bruer Tidman, had a tough choice to narrow them down to 3 main prizes and a personal commendation each. James and Katy also awarded two artists with the Paint Out Spirit of Plein Air prizes for their body of work produced during the event, consistency and quality. The prizes, as in 2019, went to a trio of female artists: First Prize – Susan Isaac, Second Prize – Mary Blue Brady, Third Prize – Amanda Barrett, and commendations to Alfie Carpenter, Jack Godfrey, Naomi Clements-Wright, Spirit of Plein Air awards to Paul Alcock, Sam Robbins.
Artist Richard Bond painting from the Market at Paint Out Norwich Winter Nocturne
Following 2018’s midwinter free event we returned to Norwich Market, Jarrolds, Haymarket and the surrounding area in mid-December 2019 to paint the seasonal scenes. Some 20 artists participated, painting early for the light as well as late for the Christmas lights.
2019’s outdoor painting programme brought us to Cambridge with Cheffins Fine Art for the first time (13-15 May), The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (1-7 July), a collaboration with the Holt Festival (19 July), and with the Norwich Hostry Festival (14-16 Oct). Our premier Norfolk plein air event offered variety of visual stimuli from beach and pine at Wells next the Sea, inland Broads at How Hill, park, house and Henry Moore sculptures at Houghton Hall, modern and more sculptures at UEA & the Sainsbury Centre culminating in judging, awards, a private view and an exhibition – now online.
Plein Air – Art works carried out in the open air – chiefly painting.
The Paint Out competitions and invitationals accept any 2-dimensional media or mixed-media applied to a canvas/board/paper embracing drawing, pastels, oils, watercolour, gouache, acrylic, pen and ink, screen-printing, and even digital in certain categories. Innovation and originality are encouraged alongside traditional art forms. We are increasingly moving towards displaying mostly unframed ‘art in the raw’, showing off plein air art in a fresh way, hot – or rather wet off the easel.
We seek to capture the urban city and country environments in contemporary ways for a new and modern audience as well as established art collectors. We bring art and artists to the people, rather than vice versa, with our artists on the streets and pop-up galleries on the greens. If you want to commission or collaborate with us to bring an event to your location, please get in touch.
We have a number of events in East Anglia before the annual premier event Paint Out Norwich to whet your appetite including several one-day PaintOuts in Norfolk historic and hidden gardens from May-early October including opportunities to paint historical changing rural and urban landscapes in Cambridge, Holt and Norfolk as we seek to use Paint Out events to document our changing environment.
2017 saw Paint Out go to the Royal Norfolk Show, and in 2018 we had events in Sudbury,Suffolk and Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. We aim to grow Paint Out year-on-year in terms of the variety, challenge, location, and quality of events.
Paint Out Norwich 2018
Paint Out Norwich 2018 competition, categories, prizes, event dates, and locations, for the plein air painting days during the Hostry Festival 2018 ran 13-17October with 2-5 days of day and night (optional) painting, artist workshops, a public ‘paintout‘ (21 Oct), and a private view, awards and art sale. This was followed by an art exhibition of over 150 paintings until 28 October at the Norwich Cathedral Hostry each day. Over 50 applications were juried by our selector David Curtis ROI RSMA, and some 35 artists participated this year.
A new one-day event – Paint Out Great Yarmouth on 1 September, from Seaside to Quayside, in collaboration with Norfolk Museums Service and particularly the Time and Tide Museum’s event ‘Drawn to the Coast: Turner, Constable, Cotman‘ which explores the identity of Great Yarmouth and its surrounding landscape through the artwork it has inspired.
The Paint Out Wells 2018 competition on the North Norfolk coast offers either a weekend-only pop-up event (2015-2017) or a one-day intensive paint day on the coast (2018) making it more accessible for those with jobs and other commitments. The event runs early September and in 2018 it was 8 September.
One-day warm-up event in Gainsborough’s hometown with options to paint the town, Gainsborough garden, old railway line walk, the Watermeadows, and more. Great views and amazing local countryside on the Suffolk/Essex border. [Gallery here…]
Norwich & Wells, Norfolk Art Class/Workshops/Talks
Paint Out provides an excellent opportunity for aspiring and seasoned artists to acquire and refresh core skills. Themes include painting and drawing, colour theory, composition, perspective, and best en plein air practice in oils, watercolour and other media, both as practical workshops and as public paint outs. Our education programme is taught by experienced professionals and covers everything you need to take your art to the next level, with a particular emphasis on Plein Air essentials. In addition, we have entrepreneurial advice about growing your art business alongside your art practice covering blogging, social media, photography, framing, pitching to galleries, and selling. Finally, we put things in context with cultural and historical talks and tours.
Paint Out 2017 featured a select group of invited artists painting the UK’s largest two-day agricultural fair – the Royal Norfolk Show. With up to 100,000 visitors it is the premier event of its kind. Our artists and team were to be found around the Show and at the Leathes Prior sponsored Paint Out tent. There was an auction of the still-wet fresh art on the Wednesday 28th by Arnolds Keys fine art auctioneers and a rolling gallery exhibition and sale of paintings from shortly after 8am 28 June to 6pm 29 June. Archant sponsored and presented £500 of prizes for First and Second places “Best in Show” paintings to Robert Nelmes and Tom Cringle. Norwich Art Supplies provided the art materials voucher prizes, presented to Haidee-Jo Summers and Mo Teeuw, for the jointly-shared Spirit of Plein Air award. View the Gallery of art painted and those still for sale.
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