Binnel Bay Designs and Pointy People by Clare Wright 

At Monkton Arts we have 3 studios upstairs housing 5 resident artists,  and Arts Space across the road which houses one resident artists and Jenna and Dawns office and work space. 

If you would like to put your name down to have a studio we will contact you if one becomes available. Email monktonarts@gmail.com

Heidi has a fine art background and has achieved a MA in fine art painting from the royal college of art 2012 and a BA fine art from slade school of art 2009. Foundation art and design Chelsea college of Art 2004

Heidi also works as a tattooist for 10 years in Portsmouth. Alongside tattooing she is an artists in residence at Monkton arts on the Isle of Wight.

Currently Heidi is working through a project at Monkton studying the process of tattooing and mark making and drawing parallels to art history. By studying the carbon that she has tattooed from she wants to explore, identity, ego, symbolism and functionality. 

Heidi has shown her work here and abroad. Working in numerous media, performance , film, sculpture, theatre her main focus currently is in drawing, painting and tattooing. 

ARTISTS LINKS:

Heidi.smith@network.rca.ac.uk

Instagram ;Tattoo work

heidi_smith_tattooist

Fine art practice  heidi.fineartist

info coming soon 

I am now a painter.

Before committing to becoming a full time artist in North Norfolk my life passed through most of the arts in one way or another.  I began as a dancer, then trained to become a professional actor, turned my hand to writing and even had the joyous experience of working at Glyndebourne Opera House.  Therefore movement, drama, imagination and musicality all have a part to play in my work.

I realise I am mercurial; therefore my output and what may be termed a ‘style’ is not necessarily consistent.  I draw inspiration from many sources, using most mediums, although oils remain my bedrock.  I produce my most representational work from the ever-changing, extraordinary  landscape – moody skies; vibrant grassland; sombre marshes.  My abstract work – abstract expressionism I guess – tends to be quirky, original and comes from a more spontaneous place.  I love shapes and colour; I love the process of discovery.  From my earliest days in a rehearsal room until now, forming a finished product from raw material has always enlivened me.

So, yes, vibrant and colourful or understated with muted tones.  These creative decisions can only be made from the objects; the views themselves. The subject dictates.