Norfolk-based artist Naomi Clements-Wright did a foundation course in Harrogate, where she honed her drawing skills. She then went on to do an art degree at Newcastle University, where much of my time was spent painting the shipyard, bridges on the Tyne and portraits. After that she studied art history at Oxford University and was inspired by the northern European masters Vermeer, de Hooch, Kobke and Hammershoi. She tries to create atmospheric and detailed compositions with a dramatic use of light and calm colours. Moving to London, she went on to Heatherleys School of Art life classes for many years, and was accepted as a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. She has exhibited widely, including the Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, New English Art Club, Discerning Eye and BP Portrait Award.
Whilst enjoying interiors, still life, and nudes, now and then Naomi moves out into the wider world for landscapes in the gentle countryside of Norfolk and along the stunning coastline. This summer, for obvious reasons, she has taken even more pleasure than usual in getting out and about.
She paints in oils and all her work stems from direct observation. Form is revealed and defined by the movement and intensity of light that she finds in this peaceful corner of England.
Paint Out History
Paint Out Norfolk – Judges Commendation (2020)
Paint Out Norfolk Gardens – Judges Commendation (2019)
Other Awards
Sample Gallery & Works for Sale
Artist Naomi Clements Wright, Lily the drink, Gooderstone Water Gardens, Norfolk, Oil, 15x10in, FOR SALE, £380
Paint Out Norfolk 2021
Artist Naomi Clements Wright, Whirling Silently in Space, Thurne, Oil, 10x8in, FOR SALE, £320
Artist Naomi Clements Wright, Whirling Silently in Space, Thurne, Oil, 10x8in, £320. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Artist Naomi Clements Wright, Pink Promenade, Cromer, Oil, 12x12in, FOR SALE, £520
Artist Naomi Clements Wright, Pink Promenade, Cromer, Oil, 12x12in, £520. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Artist Naomi Clements Wright, The fishing lesson, Whitlingham, Oil, , FOR SALE, £320
Artist Naomi Clements Wright, The fishing lesson, Whitlingham, Oil, , £320. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
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
John Behm has a natural affinity for the landscape of Norfolk and the Scottish borders where he was occupied in the conception and execution of public sculptures. He had been unable to work for a while due to a near fatal accident but fortunately has sufficiently recovered to be back to creating art and sculptures and has been making some beautiful paintings en plein air.
John studied Drawing & Painting, Sculpture and Architectural Design in the US, and at the Edinburgh College of Art.
Several decades of working within art and design with turns in teaching, writing, portraits, life-drawing, and several exhibitions means that John has a strong background in art that he is currently augmenting by studying Art History. He has numerous sculptures on past and/or present display in Scotland and Norfolk, as well as work in public collections including the City of York, the National Museums of Scotland, “The House for an Art Lover” in Glasgow, and the Coldstream Museum.
Whilst mainly painting in oils, when not carving stone and wood, and casting sculptures in bronze, he has occasionally gone mixed media including adding twigs to a three-dimensional painting at Paint Out events; he is always willing to try something new. His preference of subject includes landscape as palimpsest, the spirit of place human experience, history, family, and sensory delights.
John says of his work that:
“The idea is first, then I choose the medium – paint, wood, bronze, steel, stone, film. The word ‘art’ comes from Sanskrit, from a root meaning simply to make: it’s the making, and what, that keeps me going.”
John made the press when, in 2018, he dived into the River Wensum to rescue fellow artist and Paint Out founder James Colman’s artwork that has fallen in, easel and all, and was floating face-up in the water, heading towards Fye Bridge. Despite the October chill, John handed over his own painting, stripped off his art clothes, mounted the bridge wall and dived in the cold river to cheers from onlookers. He swam towards the waterlogged gouache and dragged it to dry land, lifesaver-style!
Now a four-times winner of the Paint OutSpirit of Plein Air prize in two locations, John is renowned for getting into deep water! Back in 2009, he waded chest-deep into the sea to install bronze sculptures in the sea off the Berwickshire coast. “All in the name of art,” was his explanation or perhaps excuse, looking for any reason to get wet!
“Ultimately it was an adventure that took us over two hours in the sea wading about bringing everything ashore. We lit a fire to warm ourselves up then installed the waymark without two much trouble.” – John Behm
Mary Blue is an American artist, currently living on the North Norfolk Coast, in the UK. She is a lover of the coast and large open landscape countryside views typically painting wide boards to show the flow of hills, trees, rivers, coastline, sand or sea. In 2019, she also focused on a series of small square individual flower forms. Her art is represented not only in the paint she applies to board but also the poetry she often inscribes within a painting.
“My painterly work weaves in written words with layers of jewel-toned colours and reflects upon the impermanence of life and the powerful forces of nature. I paint the cultural imprint history leaves on the landscape, echoing the sound of ancient footsteps from centuries ago, of fishermen collecting cockles in the creeks, of farmers bringing in the harvest.”
Paint Out Norfolk – Second Prize (2020)
Paint Out Norfolk – Participated (2019)
Paint Out Gardens – Participated (2019)
Paint Out Holt – Third Prize (2019)
Paint Out Wells-next-the-Sea – Participated (2018)
Paint Out Great Yarmouth – Participated (2018)
Paint Out Sudbury – Participated (2018)
Paint Out Norwich – Participated (2017)
Paint Out Wells-next-the-Sea – Participated (2017)
Sample Gallery & Works for Sale
Artist Mary Blue, Invisible Stars, Holkham Gap, Norfolk, Acrylic, 8x24in, £450.
Paint Out Norfolk 2022
Artist Mary Blue, Roots Reach Down twice the Depth notice the Current Underground, River Yare Whitlingham Norfolk, Acrylic, 8x24in, £450.
Paint Out Norfolk 2022
Artist Mary Blue, The Bittersweet taste of Salt on your Lips, Wells Beach, Norfolk, Acrylic, 8x24in, £450.
Paint Out Norfolk 2022
Artist Mary Blue, Purple Haze, Holkham Gap, Norfolk, Acrylic, 18x24in, FOR SALE, £790
Paint Out Norfolk 2021
Artist Mary Blue, Deep Dark River Runs to the Edge of Nowhere, River Yare, Norfolk, Acrylic, 3x12in, SOLD, £150
Paint Out Norfolk 2021
Artist Mary Blue Brady, Willow at the Waters Edge, Surlingham, Mixed Media, 15x40in, FOR SALE, £125
Artist Mary Blue Brady, Willow at the Waters Edge, Surlingham, Mixed Media, 15x40in, £125. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Artist Mary Blue Brady, Cultivating the Edge, Wiveton Down, Acrylic, 8x32in, FOR SALE, £295
Artist Mary Blue Brady, Cultivating the Edge, Wiveton Down, Acrylic, 8x32in, £295. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
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 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 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
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
Mary Blue Brady, 'Keeping Things Whole', A Field in Sudbury, Acrylic, 12x12in, FOR SALE
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Keeping Things Whole', A Field in Sudbury, Acrylic, 12x12in, £200. Paint Out Sudbury 2018
Mary Blue Brady, 'Just Once', A Field in Sudbury, Acrylic, 6x12in, FOR SALE
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'Just Once', A Field in Sudbury, Acrylic, 6x12in, £150. Paint Out Sudbury 2018
Mary Blue Brady, 'In a Field I am Absence of Field', Mill River, Sudbury, Acrylic, 12x12in, FOR SALE
Artist Mary Blue Brady, 'In a Field I am Absence of Field', Mill River, Sudbury, Acrylic, 12x12in, £250. Paint Out Sudbury 2018
Richard Bond’s work has been exhibited in national group shows and painting competitions, including the Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Competition and the Royal Watercolour Society Open Competition. An article about his work and working methods in watercolour appeared in International Artist magazine (vol. 86).
In the summer of 2013, Richard set up the Norwich Outdoor Painting Group, an informal group of local artists that meets once a week throughout the year to paint en plein air in Norwich city centre.
Richard won the First Prize at Paint Out Norwich 2015. In 2016, he followed that with a First place win in the Watercolour category. The judge, Hugh Pilkington, awarded him a judge’s commendation in 2017 for Richard’s “Indian Summer”, on Mousehold Heath.
Paint Out Awards
Paint Out Norwich – First Prize (2015, 2016), Commended (2017), selected and participated (2014, 2018)
Paint Out Wells – selected and participated (2015)
Paint Out Norfolk – selected and participated (2020, 2021)
Artist Richard Bond 'Between Showers, Norwich School', River Walk near Pull's Ferry, £380. Watercolour, 10x14in, Paint Out Norwich 2016. Photo by Simon Finlay
Artist Richard Bond, Beach Cafe in July, Winterton-on-Sea, Watercolour, 13x20in, FOR SALE, £350
Artist Richard Bond, Landscape near Surlingham, Surlingham/Bramerton, Watercolour, 13x20in, FOR SALE, £250
Mo Teeuw is a member of the Institute of East Anglian Artists (IEA) and loves en plein air painting and actively encourages all her artist friends to join her outside. She likes to paint every day and claimed in January 2014, one of the wettest winters on record, that she only spent four days in the studio.
A former art teacher, Mo is self-taught but accomplished in oils, watercolours and acrylics. She is an exhibiting member of the Lincolnshire Artists Society, Norwich and Norfolk Art Circle, and the Welland Valley Art Society.
She has exhibited her oil paintings at the Mall Galleries with the ROI, NEAC and Society of Women Artists.
She enjoyed painting at the Royal Norfolk Show, despite the weather and an inch of water in her box easel on the first day. Some pictures were just “asking to be painted” including her bullocks “Waiting to go into the ring”, but it was her “Not so much fun at the fair” first foray into the cold and wet painting environment that earned her the joint Spirit of Plein Air Prize as it portrayed a puddle-deluged outfield around a struggling for custom fairground that spoke to the message of the “show must go on” for artists and vendors alike, despite the weather – and that is, indeed, the spirit of plein air. (Read more on Mo Teeuw’s blog)
“All round it was a good experience, would I do it again next year?? Maybe I’ll check the long range weather forecast first!”
Paint Out Awards
Paint Out Royal Norfolk Show – Spirit of Plein Air Prize (2017)
Paint Out Norwich – Second Prize (2015), selected and participated (2014)
Sample Gallery & Works for Sale
Artist Mo Teeuw, Afternoon Stroll, Horsey, Oil, 14x12in, FOR SALE, £420
Artist Mo Teeuw, Afternoon Stroll, Horsey, Oil, 14x12in, £420. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Artist Mo Teeuw, Blustery Day, Thurne, Thurne, Oil, 10x14in, FOR SALE, £390
Artist Mo Teeuw, Blustery Day, Thurne, Thurne, Oil, 10x14in, £390. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Artist Mo Teeuw, Cromer Reflections, Cromer, Oil, 12x14in, FOR SALE, £420
Artist Mo Teeuw, Cromer Reflections, Cromer, Oil, 12x14in, £420. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Artist Mo Teeuw, Tony’s Boat, Ludham, Ludham, Oil, 14x12in, FOR SALE, £420
Artist Mo Teeuw, Tony’s Boat, Ludham, Ludham, Oil, 14x12in, £420. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Artist Mo Teeuw, Fishing Boats, Cromer, Cromer, Oil, 12x14in, FOR SALE, £420
Artist Mo Teeuw, Fishing Boats, Cromer, Cromer, Oil, 12x14in, £420. Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Mo Teeuw, 'In the Cow Shed', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 10x10in, FOR SALE
Artist Mo Teeuw, 'In the Cow Shed', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 10x10in, £310
Mo Teeuw, 'Hot Stuff', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 8x8in, FOR SALE
Artist: Mo Teeuw, Title: Hot Stuff, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media: Oil, Size: 8x8in, £220
Mo Teeuw, 'Which Came First?', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 10x10in, SOLD
Artist: Mo Teeuw, Title: Which Came First?, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media: Oil, Size: 10x10in, £290
Mo Teeuw, 'Waiting To Go in the Ring', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 10x10in, FOR SALE
Artist: Mo Teeuw, Title: Waiting To Go in the Ring, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media: Oil, Size: 10x10in, £290
Mo Teeuw, 'Pigs For Sale', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 10x10in, FOR SALE
Artist: Mo Teeuw, Title: Pigs For Sale, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media: Oil, Size: 10x10in, £290
Mo Teeuw, 'Not So Much Fun at the Fair', Norfolk Showground, Oil, 10x10in, SOLD
Artist: Mo Teeuw, Title: Not So Much Fun at the Fair, Location: Norfolk Showground, Media:Oil, Size: 10x10in, £290
