Grace Adam – Meteorites

A series of strange entities has landed on the lawn at Bayfield Hall. 

Constructed from straw these biomorphic objects are tightly bound with coloured thread. They sit in the grass waiting. 

Kate Allsop

Rebecca Amphlett – The Fifth Element – The four outer spheres represent the classical elements: water, fire, earth, and air. At the centre, a golden globe adorned with the”Seed of Life” pattern, symbolising The fifth element, representing the harmony and interconnectedness of all four elements of nature. Green, Earth, £1,250. White & silver Air, £1,250. Red & orange Fire, £1,250. Blue, Water £1,250. Golden 5th element £1,250. All 5 spheres, £5,500.

Meg Amsden – Set in an apple tree, the three Matronae fertility goddesses carry bowls of fruit, eggs and cakes, loaves of bread and babies. The Cauldron of Plenty brimming with apples gives abundance, prosperity and nourishment, immortality and healing. 

Cauldron – iron and Jesmonite – unique piece £250: Matronae bass reliefs – Jesmonite – issue of 5 copies £300 each or £800 for all three..

Sophie Austin – Welcome Storyteller, we’ve been waiting for you. What happens next?
Take a seat, open the leather-bound book, read what has been written.
Dare you continue the story?
An interactive installation inviting you to write what happens next in the story so far. 
Created by Sophie Austin with soundscape by Isa Suarez
Sophie Austin is a storyteller working across theatre, film and audio to connect us to the wilder world.
You can hear how this Bayfield Hall story unfolds here: www.sophiejaneaustin.com

Nick Ball –  GORT, from the film “THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL”  represents the need to clean up our planet, ironically made from a waste product which itself is made from an endangered species.

Rachael Barns – Encapsulated

Hundreds of fragile natural elements held in fused soft plastic circles.   The circle represents the eternal circle of life, unity, nature. Also reuse, recycling, repurposing. The light shining through the clear discs highlights the captured beauty within.  Some pieces have decomposed leaving traces, a reminder of the natural cycle of life and death. Whilst the durable, un-natural plastic prompts thoughts of global issues around plastic use and disposal.

The centre of the banner holds a collection of site-specific found poems, each referring to a ///what3words location in the Bayfield Hall Lake. 

Arnie Barton – Bear – made from long needle pine tree from West Beckham, £2600. Spirit of the Cedar Root – wood sourced from West Runton, £1500. Norfolk Totem Pole – sweet chestnut from Broadland country park near Norwich, £1500. You can find Arnie working on the edge of Felbrigg woods A148. www.roadsidecarver.com

Esther Boehm – After The End, £1850. Through a recent orchard project, I painted branches white — transforming them – exposing the purity of their form. This inspired the whimsical aspect of my white sculptures. Commissions taken.

Helen Breach – A collection of abstract metal sculptures assembled from discarded agricultural implements & machinery from Aunt Rosemary’s barn.  

Aunt Rosemary was born and lived in the same farmhouse all her eighty-five years.  When clearing the barn, metal items were collected and it’s my privilege to reuse them in a creative form in memory of an amazing Norfolk character.

Rachel Burchell – Which Path – A reflection on permanence and ephemerality within the precarious climate situation we find ourselves – a reminder of our ongoing need to protect the natural world, promote species stability as well as appreciate the beauty of the hidden and overlooked. Wild flora from Bayfield grounds have been used to create bas reliefs using eco resin.

Mandy Caldon – Queen of Swords – This piece reflects the vulnerability, strength and spiritual power of our female ancestors, translated in stoneware clay and presented in traditional form. 

Laura Cannell – From her recent highly acclaimed album The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined Laura’s experimental recorder can be heard filling the ancient chapel at Bayfield and soaring across the valley.

Sarah Cannell – ‘Talisman – An object that is thought to have magic powers and to bring good luck..’ Inspired by the Iceni offering talismans to the rivers and land in East Anglia, three Jackalopes are released into the grounds every day of the trail. Will you be lucky enough to find one? Ceramic with gold lustre. www.sarahcannell.com

Mike Challis – SawSong – A playful use of recycled materials; Sawsong is a sound sculpture using discarded circular saw blades repurposed as gongs. The blades are arranged on threaded rods in a mirrored box and played with ball bearings to create a cacophony of sound. 

Dom Cooper – Guardian At The Border – The sculpture is  a reminder to look after ourselves and our loved ones, to keep an eye out for mental stress and dissociation. It can be seen as two halves: a calm curving half that suggests a healthy mind, and a spikier one, perhaps angrily at odds with the world. The front, similarly, contrasts with the back – smooth and rounded compared to undulating and distorted. It stands at the border of mental stability and instability.

Ancaster Weatherbed Limestone on slate base and wooden plinth. £1,500

Kally Davidson – Like stories, phobias can be retold within tribes.  Not wishing this, I followed threads of a growing curiosity since my maternal grandmother died, into Spider Amore.  Sitting with the seasons of life in constant flux, yarns woven in mind from womb fruit to spider star.

Peter Day – Bella Ballerina – the piece is a tribute to the late Cecil Morris and his work cultivating the Benton End Irises. The piece is new for 2024, made from mild steel and stands on a stone plinth.

Nicci Dedman – Pickle – handmade steel.

Charlotte Dickens – Tactile pottery, intended to be interacted with, decorated motifs blended with their living counterparts; do you see a frame, the natural surroundings captured within, or a portal into another realm?

Jen Fox – Unfold, Uncover, Fold, Turnover 

(an installation of small box forms)

A folded item is sacred somehow, can be shared, opened or closed and contained.

Beth Groom – Working playfully and intuitively with disused organs pipes, this new body of work considers ideas about the history and meaning of making with found objects.
Beginning with the personality and presence of these austere hollow grey objects the work wittily and thoughtfully reframes the subject in a way that is at once intriguing and ambiguous.

Alison Henry – Swifts grace our skies each summer, but their future here is threatened, partly due to loss of suitable nesting sites. In Swifts I-IV the ghostly white of plaster moulds and the blackness of clay tiles reflect my dread that one day we may lose them entirely. Plaster moulds (unique) £450 each. Tiles £100 each.

Jean Kiekopf – Craning Cranes
A sway in the breeze; a whisper through the grass or reeds – these elegant cranes tower gracefully in all seasons. Jean Kiekopf has created these ‘Craning Cranes’ from steel rods, cassini plaster and Powertex. They are suitable for indoor or outdoor display. £145 each.
Jean is happy to take commissions for indoor and outdoor sculptures. www.jksculptures.co.uk

Louise Kosinska – Blue bottle, green bottle, blue grass, green grass

Blue bottles arranged in a sinuous form, filled with water collected from rain and dew reference my continued love of blue and glass but also the ten green bottles standing on the wall, recycling ,repurposing and bluebottles which have a bad rep but provide important benefits to the ecosystem. 

Colour and the lack of it symbolise two separate worlds, echoing my dual heritage, Polish and English.  My  work is narrative, drawn to opposites and images with two halves, to mystify mundane objects, investing them sometimes playfully sometimes poetically with ambiguous meaning and mythology. I use materials that reflect these ambiguities and charge the senses. Family histories and stories, real or imagined, changing borders, lost places and spaces, are some of the things hinted at along with a passion for blue and the use of glass, solid yet imperceptible.

Cindy Lee Wright – The Horse with Wings – I always called a winged horse Pegasus because I didn’t know any better. I now know he is universal and has so many names, perhaps ours is from Islam? Then he would be called Haizum– the horse given to the Archangel Gabriel.  Or maybe he is Devadatta, from Hinduism, or Tianma from China, or Tulpar, Al-Buraq, The Wind Horse, then of course, he may be Fledge, from Narnia. Maybe he is none of these. He has appeared in Norfolk, so perhaps he has a Norfolk name. I wonder what that is? He has flown to Bayfield after spending the summer at our sister event www.raveninghamsculpturetrail.com

Paeony Lewis – BELIEF.
Where does belief begin and end? Votives hang above crates containing cameraless photographs of ripples in bottles, created from water collected at ancient wells, imbued with centuries of belief. Can belief be bottled?

Imi Maufe – Going NoWhere, Aluminium. Signage and symbols used to navigate air, land and sea are a common theme in Maufe’s work, and this piece combines a selection of recognisable visual information and directional arrows with a twist leading nowhere. 

Imi Maufe has a background in Landscape Architecture and completed an MA in Multi-disciplinary Printmaking from the University of the West of England, Bristol. She has lived in Norway since 2009, having grown up in Norfolk. Imi works on exhibitions, installations, residencies and collaborative projects, often for Codex Polaris, working with book artists in the Nordic countries. She is currently letterpress printer at the Norwegian Printing Museum in Stavanger. £350 each sign.

Andy Maule – Tipping Point £800. I have become increasingly concerned with human impact on the environment, and the wider planetary consequences. “Tipping Point”, articulates the fragility of our current condition while referencing its connection to our industrial past through the use of an archaeological fragment of a mill stone as a base. Wire Figure at box office £750.

Shaun Pickering –

Gordon Senior – Recent sculptures include casts of arable plants such as barley, wheat and oats as well as representations of animals. The images of arable plants and creatures are depicted at different stages of their lives. Spectators are invited to consider evolution, natural selection, and cultivation. The sculptures are made of a range of different coloured sands, cements and include stone chippings in a terrazzo form. Casts are embedded into the objects evoking a sense of place, reference to geology, and the history of the landscapes that surround me.

Meryem Siemmond – ‘GOLDEN JOURNEY’

Travertine stone on a slate-unique

Inspired from Japanese Kintsugi (Kintsukuroi) art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with highlight of gold. Philosophy is that even though things may be damaged, they are still valuable and have meaning. We all maybe got cracks, maybe pains, maybe sad stories, as well as all good things, all makes us who we are. It centres on the acceptance of transience, imperfection and the beauty found in simplicity. It is built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections, we can create an even stronger piece of art, everybody have their own golden journey!

Plinth not included, please enquire if you would like.

£1,150

Sonic Moth – Ambient – Drone – Synth Cassette label – work in progress Bandcamp. Sound installation created using field recordings made on site at Raveningham.

Monica Wheeler – Come Dine with Me – Many of my installations are visually  linking the domestic, nature, and animals importance in our everyday lives, for our wellbeing, and deeper understanding of that connection. Perhaps it’s a yearning for more of it as I live in London.