Wells Heritage Art Trail

We recently popped across to Wells Next The Sea in North Norfolk for a few days to see an art trail organised by the newly redeveloped Wells Heritage Centre.  The pieces were displayed mostly along the quay, in the heritage centre and down at the beach cafe.

Above and below are the panels of a triptych displayed at the Beach Cafe made by Kate Allsop and titled Shoreline Shifts.

I couldn't usefully photograph the whole thing but it can be viewed here.

Also at the Beach Cafe was Harbour Side by Andrew Ruffhead

Pieces of driftwood and a boat's transom are included.  I was really pleased to see this piece as we enjoyed Andrew's work in a holiday let we stayed in at Sheringham earlier in the year.

We had to look a bit harder for our next piece on the art trail as it was out of place due to the bad weather.

Jack was busy keeping us company while we had a cuppa in the Heritage Centre.

Along the East Quay we encountered The Ships by Andrew Schumann.

This is in fact a tall post with two spheres placed one above the other.  We had fun photographing the upside down view through the glass.  Sadly I didn't photograph the interpretive information.

A rather more poignant installation was found at the Harbour Office and was entitled Through These Doors by Robert Smith MBE.

Back on the East Quay we were invited into Gordon Senior's garden to view Marris Otter Barley and Sea Barley.

I hope you can see from the photos that real grain was used to render the barley.   I loved the textures.

I'll continue in a second post for my two favourite installations.