26 St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk, IP33 1SN
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Thursday 10:00 - 16:00
Friday 10:00 - 16:00
Saturday 10:00 - 16:00
Closed:
Sun / Mon / Tue / Wed
Services:
Picture Framing
Art Gallery
Mount Cutting
Glass and Board Cutting
Medal Presentation
Stretcher Making
Digital Photo Restoration
Flourish is a celebration of the beauty, joy, and restorative power of nature. Through expressive floral paintings, vibrant colour, and gestural brushstrokes, the exhibition captures moments of wonder found in the natural world while reflecting on our deep connection to it. Inspired by the belief that time spent in nature can nurture creativity, calm the mind, and enhance wellbeing, these works invite viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect.
Predominantly created during a two-year MA in Textile Design, the artworks that make up Flourish are both a personal response to the natural world and an invitation to embrace its uplifting, healing presence in our everyday lives.
‘Small Beginnings, Great Expectations’
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‘The Lost Jackets’
Curtains to Couture was originally an Instagram account created in October 2024 by 5 friends aiming to spread their message of sustainability and to “save the world, one curtain at a time”. In just a year and a half they have managed to gain a strong following of many thousands of likeminded stitchers and creatives on Instagram that extends all around the world. In 2025, 5 became 7, and they are now a committed group of talented textile artists with a wide range of skills. They are keen to involve others in collaborative stitching projects and are showcasing 2 of these projects at the Angle Gallery, Bury St Edmunds from 1st May. “The Lost Jackets” (as featured in Embroidery magazine) - 10 unwanted, worn out school jackets donated to charity, yet heading to landfill due to their poor condition, were saved and reinvented by 10 textile artists, creating a visually stunning collection with an important and relevant message. “Small Beginnings, Great Expectations”, an exploration in stitch of memories and emotions sparked by a collection of much loved but no longer wanted precious baby and toddler clothes. 70 women have taken part in this project, producing a very varied, beautiful and unique collection that is both thought provoking and poignant. Two very different projects, that complement each other well, yet both reflecting the creativity and skills of many likeminded women, highlighting the importance of saving garments from landfill, reinventing them and thus giving them a new life.
Michelle Parsons' artistic practice draws inspiration from organic forms, encompassing subjects such as lobsters, fish, and birds. She elevates these natural elements through her vibrant application of colour and evocative mark-making. The resulting artworks are bold declarations of colour and expression, rich in depth, texture, and contrast.
Michelle specialises in large-scale oil paintings, collaborating with interior designers, restaurants, and private clients globally. In addition to her painting, she also works with monoprint, etching, and lino printmaking techniques.
Michelle is a member of the Suffolk Art Society and Suffolk Open Studios; she opens her art studio to the public each June. She also dedicates her time to art education, teaching art at a local college, conducting weekly life drawing classes and organising regular art workshops.
Michelle articulates her artistic philosophy: "Close-up organic forms create an abstracted expressive surface based on space, light, colour and texture. A sense of depth; blurred backgrounds and loose brushstrokes contrast with sharp detail and tighter representational mark-making. The longer I create, the more I realise that my work is all about the composition as a whole.”
'All roads lead to here'
Barnaby Wills
The artist uses painting and mixed media to re-assemble images and abstractions to help reflect
aspects of the world that surrounds us. He works on oil paintings that are based upon abstract
constructions of shapes with bold colour sequences. The work helps the viewer understand a
visual language that references nuances from abstract painting and pattern design. The
paintings offer a view into a whole world of inter-connected shapes that use both curved and
straight lines, helping to enliven interest and impact. When exploring themes and concepts he
often frees himself from limitations and explores different possibilities for one work, or a series of
works.
Taking care of the preparation for the creative process, the artist considers ideas surrounding
geographical exploration and discovery. He investigates imagery that may communicate and
relate to the viewer, and he explores practical elements to painting and draughtsmanship,
leaning towards a stimulating process.
Wills has exhibited around the UK and graduated from the Fine Arts course at The University of
the West of England in Bristol.
Opening Thursday 15th January until 28th February 2026
SMALL THINGS EXHIBITION
Our November/December Exhibition opens on Thursday 6th November and we have a launch evening on Saturday 8th November between 6-8pm.
The fantastic @vinyl__hunter, our neighbours over the road will stay open to host drinks and music.
Please email theburyframingcentre@gmail.com if you would like to provide your email to be added to our mailing list for info about forth coming events.
In @theanglegallery @theburyframingcentre
We have work from 12 different artists ranging from watercolour, printing, bricolage, ceramics and oil painting.
There are a range of cards and original works of art in browsers to peruse.
@jamieandrewsart @leighdriverart @janine_everitt @juliagrovesartist @katejacksonstudio @thekirinsart @lucyperryart @martina___siskova @catherinesmith66144 @redsodey @edstokesart
Kate Jackson is a visual artist, singer and songwriter. She draws inspiration from the urban landscape, Brutalist architecture, liminal edgelands and transient spaces. She is particularly interested in the point where mundanity and beauty collide, where the everyday becomes extraordinary and the trace of a memory is momentarily triggered by the way the light falls on a concrete flyover. Her paintings are acts of preservation, exploring ideas around nostalgia and sense of place, ancestry and memory as well as the occult and magic.
Julia Groves
Julia is a multidisciplinary, botanical artist, inspired by the complex relationships between plants and people.
Working primarily with Watercolour, Drawing and Photography.
Evelyn Polk
Evelyn’s work is deeply rooted in both materiality and concept, bridging the physicality of found objects with abstract interpretations of form and colour but this also overlaps with notions of excavation and the land. Her approach to printmaking—pushing beyond traditional methods—suggests an experimental and innovative practice, which is exciting given the historical weight of printmaking as a medium.
Catherine Smith
Catherine Smith has a BA (Hons) Degree in Graphic Design from Northumbria University (Newcastle Polytechnic) and worked as a graphic designer and on community arts projects in the northeast before moving to Suffolk.
Finding more time to devote to painting and drawing she started exhibiting her paintings in 2015 with the encouragement of Echo Arts, and more recently as a member of the Society of East Anglian Watercolourists. Since then, she has been selected for exhibitions in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. In 2017 she won the Cambridge News Award for an Outstanding Contemporary Watercolour and in 2022 the SEAW Royal Watercolour Society Award, as well as being selected for the Leeds Summer Show in 2023.
These recent paintings are a response to the changing views from the back of her Suffolk home though autumn, winter and into spring. They are creative gestures concerned with shape, scale and colour.
Vlasta Shevchenko
Like all Ukrainians, reflections on the war continue to shift and evolve. There are so many emotions—grief, disbelief, hope, defiance—that are almost impossible to put into words. These paintings are born from that emotional landscape. They are both deeply personal and profoundly communal—reflections shared with fellow Ukrainians, wherever they may be.
This body of work has taken shape under the heavy shadow of war, shaped by the sorrow, resilience, and unbreakable spirit of a people who continue to fight not just for their country, but for truth, freedom, and humanity itself.
Julia Groves
Evelyn Polk
Catherine Smith
Vlasta Shevchenko
An exhibition of recent paintings in The Angle Gallery @theanglegallery .
The show will run 8th May – 28th June. Opening night 10th May @vinyl__hunter
Primavera is a show bringing together paintings by Martina Šišková that have been made between late 2023 and May 2025, accompanied by a few recent watercolours on paper.
The Tondo paintings have in common the subject matter; flowers and the circular shape of wooden supports. Within that framework each has its own story to tell; it’s own emotion and a reason for being. As well as its own language, to an extent; it often feels as if every painting demands a new way of looking and handling the paint.
I work primarily with oils and pigments mixed with oils. Each piece starts out as a pencil drawing; to me that is the blueprint, the skeleton of what is to come. There is a moment when I almost completely erase the drawing, which is actually quite difficult; a ghost of it always stays in the tooth of the gesso surface; and it feels like the image has slipped into the painting’s subconsciousness. It has been an important milestone, but one that has to be overcome, if I am to make a painting that is true to paint and the evolution of my relationship with the subject matter; with the flower that is in front of me.
The most straightforward reason why I paint flowers is that they are beautiful. Unapologetically themselves; at times vulnerable and soft, at others wild and alien-like. But most of all they are life-affirming, like when spring has just began, the ground is still bare but first green shoots are emerging; first tender leaves unfurling and everything is imbued with potential. It would be hard to put a finger on why exactly; it could be a change of wind; the colour of sun; but spring has started.
That is the essence I want to capture; when the flowers have just opened; full of life; perfect; a moment of out of time existence. Considering the full circle of growth, it is a fleeting stage; and I think that the sense of potential can be found in any part of it. But in visual terms, capturing this moment of a new blossom is how I can convey it the best.
The organic shapes and dynamics between them remind me of inner psychological and emotional states; the harmonies; tensions, contrasts; synchronicities. I see them as reflections of inner worlds as much as things of tangible reality.
I hope you enjoy the show.
Martina
AN EXHIBITION BY WORKHOUSE ENGLAND
Working alongside the craftsmen who helped us restore our Victorian workshop, Workhouse was born out of a renewed appreciation for the hidden beauty in old things. Drawn to images of the Victorian street, we became particularly interested in unposed photographs of street traders and musicians. Whether a distinctive jacket, or a favorite hat, the garments and images where hand made, made to last – and often made for someone else. Formal worn informally, old with new, contrasting fabrics and textures – all with a certain swagger. We wanted to craft garments that captured this.
Specialising in sartorial tailoring using British cloth, we have been making clothes for over twenty years. At the root of a Workhouse garment is the time and expertise that has been taken to master its fit. Trained at Huntsman on Savile Row, our pattern cutter come to the studio; we relish this process, exploring which methods work for a particular design, how best to combine traditional methods and new.
Workhouse prizes sustainability and building local supply chains that sit outside the traditional model. More than just a business, we strive to forge relationships with the like minded individuals, and believe that such commitments are what make our garments unique.
The Kirins
'200 million marks with pen on paper is only one word of explanation, but us making marks together makes the conversation.
We find the collaborative process a highly liberating one; together emphasising each other’s marks and forms without preciousness. Sometimes we work in tandem, others alternately, but always aim to be as fluid, expansive and as creative as possible.’
Working collaboratively, Lorna and Stephen are influenced by the natural world, mythology and respond to the work of others using a diverse visual language that includes painting, print, poetry and sculpture.
KATE GIBB
Kate has worked as a printmaker and illustrator for over twenty years from her print studio in Paddington. A silkscreen obsessive, her early studies in printed textiles fuelled her inherent love of colour and pattern which continually provide the basis for the majority of her work. The kind of printing she is inspired by relies on chance, hiccups and happy accidents. Technically her practice is self taught, experimental and continually evolving.
Commercially she is renowned for her music-related sleeve artwork, most notably for a long standing relationship with The Chemical Brothers. Non-commercially she continues to explore the silk-screen process, its tactile nature and subtle nuances providing the many graphic characteristics typical of her one-off pieces and hand-screened editions.
Past Clients include 180 Amsterdam, Apple, M&C Saatchi, Pentagram, SonyBMG, Virgin Records, EMI Music Publishing, Creative Review, Nike, Dries Van Noten, Levis, Penguin Books, Bloomsbury Publishing, The Guardian & Observer, Wired US, Stussy, Adidas Originals, V&A, ‘+81 Japan’, Bloomberg Financial, IDEA Magazine.
SUFFOLK OPEN STUDIO - JUNE 2024
Paintings and prints by Julia Masterman
Leigh Driver
I create contemporary works in a variety of media on board, canvas and paper, taking inspiration from the English landscape, its history and its weather.
I am drawn to places where traces of the past are most evident, collecting information in notes, videos, sound recordings and photographs, as well as experimenting with expressive marks in sketchbooks.
Later, in my Brandon studio, images emerge from a combination of observation, and memory, often including a variety of viewpoints and emotions to evoke a sense of place and the passage of time. Although the choice of medium is influenced by my response to the subject, the majority of my work is in acrylic, mixed media or watercolour.
Taking the landscape as my starting point I use a variety of media to carry out further investigation, seeking to reveal the transitions between the hidden and tangible layers of human engagement with the environment over time. Drawing on this research I work in the studio to create work that explores both past and present filtered through my own experience of a particular place. Now and then the ghosts of figures wander into the scene. At other times, images seem to come almost entirely from within, as if from dreams remembered: these have become my Inner Landscapes series.
In the early 1980s I studied Fine Art under the guidance of Graham Boyd at the Hertfordshire College of Art and Design. As well as painting and drawing, I particularly enjoyed printmaking and sculpture; both occasionally make a reappearance in my practice. Following a move from Hertfordshire to Suffolk over 30 years ago, I re-trained as a historian and wrote a couple of books about landscape history but returned to art in 2004 when I founded a community arts organization, West Suffolk Arts Centre CIC (WSAC). Since then, I have curated projects for Arts Council England, Suffolk County Council and a number of independent arts organisations. For the past decade my work has focused mainly on performance, sound art and the moving image but a period of ill-health in late 2020 prompted a reappraisal of my practice and I rediscovered my love of mark-making.
EUAN WILLIAMS
“Freewriting” in a circle on paper: A text of thoughts on the connection between the past and the future - these are late night ruminations of a new father. The script obscures itself as it is being written over itself - the line of the writing becomes increasingly stronger and more defined.
The barbed wire like scribbles dissolves and splits up through a process of chromatography. The colours that you can see come from inside the single coloured ink of the written line. Water that had absorbed itself into the paper has split up the ink into its colourful component parts revealing what was hidden and always there. The colour is in the ink.
Suffolk Open Studio at The Angle Gallery
Featuring work by Julia Masterman revisiting disruption of the Greek myth Leda and the Swan.
New work include a range of giclee prints that explore memories and sense of place.
Taking part in a 'Bury and Lark' studio trail in and around Bury St Edmunds, artist studio's will be open to the public on both Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th June 10:00 - 17:00.
The Kirins
EXHIBITION
11th January until 25th March 2023
Stephen & Lorna Kirin live in Suffolk together, working on both collaborative and individual projects. Stephen is a wood carver, painter and writer and Lorna is a landscape and seascape artist.
‘We find the collaborative process a highly liberating one; together emphasising each other’s marks and forms without preciousness. Sometimes we work in tandem, others alternately, but always aim to be as fluid, expansive and as creative as possible.’
SMALL THINGS EXHIBITION
Jamie Andrews
'Years of playing with paint and plastic '
Rachel Sodey
'abstract prints inspired by the Suffolk fields and never ending horizons'
Tracy Harper
'I paint, what is ‘in’ me, not what is ‘around’ me.
Our psyche is visually imagined in contorted, swirling lines, shapes and colours. I am exploring ways of painting thoughts, emotions and behaviours to translate their essence'
Craig Becton Field
'An exploration of texture, form and floating ovoid-like science-fictional masses'
Watercolour Artist working in a range of subject matter that include botanical and bird studies and popular culture portraiture.
Kate’s formative years living in Sheffield and touring the country with The Long Blondes informed her large scale acrylic paintings of Brutalist and concrete architectural structures, motorway flyovers, bridges and service stations. She is interested in the transience of architecture and the evolving urban landscape, in particular Brutalist structures of the mid - late 20th Century, in the sculptural qualities of concrete and in the beauty of light and shadow cast on these structures at certain moments in time.
Her process uses layers of acrylic paint to build up an opaque, graphic surface, eliminating all evidence of the brush, so that the work appears at first glance to be printed rather than painted. She uses bright, bold, uplifting colours to portray what are often considered to be ugly ‘concrete monstrosities’ literally in a different light and uses colour palettes that reference pop music and popular ‘low brow’ culture from British film and TV to highlight the relationship between the two.
Dates:
04-05-22
UNTIL
02-07-22
Wednesday to Saturday 10.00-16.00
Dates: 30th March – 30th April 2022, Wednesday to Saturday 10.00-16.00
Janine Everitt
Etching and Photographic Prints
Julia Masterman
Giclee prints of natural forms and landscape
Ed Stokes
Wildlife Illustration
Dates: 19th January – 26th March 2022, Wednesday to Saturday 10.00-16.00
Exhibition by Lucy Perry
13th November 2021 until the 15th January 2022
Painting and a range of experimental printmaking that includes monoprint, cyanoptype and gold leaf, mixed media and silkscreen.
Paintings, prints and collages
July/August 2020 EXHIBITION - Stuart Roy
https://www.artfinder.com/artist/stuart-roy
He studied fine art whilst at university in Wales, but quickly became involved in photography on a professional level. When he eventually settled in Suffolk and then Norfolk the move re-ignited his interest in painting.
As an artist he is constantly developing his personal style and exploring new ways of creating work to capture the atmosphere and the colour of a scene.
June 2020 EXHIBITION - Julia Masterman - Suffolk Open Studios
The Bury Framing Centre is forming part of an artist trail with artists Julia Masterman, Barbara Dougan, Evelyn Polk and Lorna & Stephen Kirin over the weekend of the 26th and 27th June and the shop is open Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat and Sunday throughout June.
Suffolk Open Studio June 2021
Hosting work by Julia Masterman
Socio political feminist conceptual art that explores the silencing of women and oppression by the patriarchy; the work examines the parallels of repetition though history from the classics. The plethora of visualisations that present the submissive and dominated female as victim requires analysis to counter the domestic and casual familiarity of that imagery. Do the arts have a vital role to visualise a new future for women that is different from the existing history?
The overarching theme for the work explores the silencing of women and is influenced by the classicist Mary Beard, and the domestication of imagery that stems from the Greek and Roman classical myths.
Having focused upon the myth of Leda and the Swan, the resulting work concentrates upon Leda but includes other female mythological characters to disrupt and provide new visualised outcomes.
Working across multiple disciplines, which include sculpture, print and paint, the work appropriates known stories and artworks to interrupt and challenge the maintenance of the patriarchy.
Exhibition April - June 2021
Janine Everitt is a Fine Artist currently working within the areas of
printmaking, photography and sculpture.
She has spent a large part of her life working overseas,
in East Asia, the Americas and India.
Originally trained as a Theatre and Television Set Designer,
her artistic practice sets out to explore the Human Condition, highlighting relations between space, scale, identity and power.
She often introduces a physical or psychological disturbance
to contradict expectations.
Janine completed her MA in Fine Art from Norwich University of the Arts in 2019 with distinction and she was the recipient of the Fairhurst Gallery Prize.
Exhibition - December 2020 - March 2021
Lucy Perry is a painter-printmaker with a studio in the heart of rural Suffolk. Her work responds to nature with painterly and colourful outcomes exploring pattern and place. Whether painting or printmaking Perry's primary concerns are colour mixing and mark making. Intuitive responses are created en plein air in the landscape and in the garden then developed in the studio. Gesture and layers are key elements in creating Perry's work where marks are made, masked, and revealed - works are pushed and pulled into being communicating her passionate connection with nature capturing form, fleeting moments of light and glorious interpretations of colour and pattern.
