Art in nature to inspire and soothe the soul.
Artists have created works in response to the unique natural space at Bayfield Hall in the Glaven Valley. Starting on the formal front lawn of the hall the artworks are situated in the private gardens, woodlands, ancient chapel and valley at Bayfield. The selected artists work in a variety of materials including metal, stone, textiles, sound, film, ceramics and more. The artists are from across the UK and Europe with a wealth of talent, experience and imagination to help create our 4th uplifting Bayfield Hall Sculpture Trail.
Grace Adam – Stave – A group of sculptures sits on the lawn, They are constructed from timber posts and fallen branches. In places the branches and posts run to each other seamlessly making it hard to see where one starts and the other ends.. In other places it is more like an awkward jigsaw puzzle. Stave is about what you see and where, about incongruity and the uncanny.
In 1906 psychiatrist Ernst Jentsch described the uncanny, ‘unheimlich’ (unhomely) as something new and unknown. The right thing in the wrong place.
Kate Allsop Ceramics – Wednesday Morning Pottery Group.
Ceramic map celebrating the North Norfolk coastline in a medieval style.
A collaborative project made by 8 different enthusiastic pottery students working together.
Stoneware crank tiles decorated with slips and stains.
Rebecca Amphlett – Nature’s Alchemy: A Golden Path of Growth
Journey along this path, flanked by “Nature’s Alchemy,” stepping stones that trace the enchanting stages of a flower’s life. Glimmering with gold and iridescent glass, these tactile artworks invite you to witness the transformation unfold.
Seed of Life: Begin your passage with the “Seed of Life”, rich with potential, the quiet intensity held within a single seed – a concentrated promise of the beauty yet to come.
New Life: As you continue, the “New Life” marks the vibrant emergence of growth, shimmering with iridescent light, echoing the first tender shoots reaching towards the sun.
In Full Bloom: The path culminates with the radiant “In Full Bloom”. Here, the golden mosaics explodes celebrating the flower’s full glory and the captivating beauty of its mature form.
“Nature’s Alchemy” offers a sensory experience, guiding you through the miraculous cycle of growth. The precious gold and shifting iridescence symbolise the inherent value and beauty found in each stage. Take your time, observe the details, and connect with the quiet wonder of nature’s alchemy.
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Meg Amsden – Six Swans
6 shapeshifting swans from Grimm’s fairytale. Magic shirts turn boys into swans, but nettle shirts can turn them back again, if only their sister can make them in time to break the spell. One shirt is unfinished, one boy has a swan’s wing.
Multi-media; olive oil cans, Jesmonite, silk, feathers, hessian and nettle cord.
Ball Nick – Suitcase to Heaven recycled suitcases.
The construction of a chimney reimagined as a dream of travel.
The drudgery of industrial work forgotten by the escape of holidays.
The suitcases invoke previous times when holidays were usually a week at the seaside but now? . Our baggage has come on a long way along with our lust for travel and all its ramifications for the environment..
Rachael Barns – Discovered
Made using discarded and waste materials. Cut, folded, twined, coiled and gathered into a collection of biomorphic objects.
Inspired by human impact on the natural world through our over-consumption and waste production.
Stacey Beaumont – Beaumont Stacey – Cornish Slate combined with glass, the sculptures react with their environment and sunlight to magical effect.
Talisman – £1,400 (Price includes hand-forged galvanised plinth)
Dimensions: 68cm H x 50cm W
Zephyr – £1,850
Dimensions: Approx 74cm H x 69/70cm W
Helen Breach – CorTen Man, £520. gazing across the valley, isolated on a strange hillside, waiting anxiously for the return of his family.
Created from a segment of cor-ten steel, plasma cut with features created by the cut-out shapes.
Poised on old scaffold tube inset into a recycled coach wheel hub, CorTen Man is open-mouthed and hopeful.
Burns Vivienne – Spiralling Ceramic Forms
A mysterious power and process that changes and transforms a lump of mud into a sculpture is like alchemy. Being guided and listening to that inner voice produces creative magic that results in an intuitive making transformation.
Prices, each sculpture is numbered: 1-7 £80 each, 8 – £90, 9 – £150, 10 – £200, 11 – £120, 12-13 £220 each, 14 – £250, 15 – £380.
Liz Cannell – The Lost Village of Bayfield; cotton is grown and harvested in October and turned into fabric for saris. The pieces I have used are from recycled saris and the fillings all recycled materials from UK.
Mike Challis – Bats In The Belfry – I have long been interested in the sounds we don’t hear; in different mediums such as underwater and ultrasonic sounds. Bats’ echolocation sounds are usually in the ultrasonic range way above our hearing. By using a bat detector these sounds can be pitch shifted into the spectrum of sound frequencies that humans can hear. This piece is a playful imagining what it would be like to hear the bats flying above your head in this ruined church.
Chapman Luke – Jackalope
I am fascinated by the unpredictability of wood, it allows for a fluidity and flow that I strive for in my work, without the constraints of a more rigid medium. I see it as a conversation between myself and the wood, a connectedness through the edge of a chisel or saw, reinvigorating the wood with renewed beauty. I am inspired by the natural world and creating pieces that still have something of the wild about them; an energy, a life, a movement. A piece that tells a story of its own, one that changes and evolves with every audience, and with every year that passes.
THE DnA FACTORY MRSS [Dallas & Angel] create distinctive and beautiful work infused and infected by the human condition. Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors & Chelsea Arts Club.
‘FIELD OF IDEAS//GHOSTLIGHT’, 60 cast plaster elements, impregnated with wildflower seeds, designed to decay; play on the word ‘bulb’. A bulb with the capacity for creating light or a bulb with the capacity for creating life.
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Kally Davidson – An exploration into Alchemagic art.
I’m curious to see how a fluctuation of state contributes in the outcome of achieving a golden yellow yarn dyed with flora or the creative nature of my sculptural freeform crochet. Whether that be my own state, the environment, elements or materials. Suspended like golden chrysalis’s within a cabinet of curiosities, will the skeins and sculptural experiments divulge the recipe for joie de vivre gold…
Carl Durban – Thinking Loops are a representation of his physical action, his digital footprint, allowing new ideas, ethereal thinking and to solve problems. His drawings and sculpture are a representation of paths taken, intersections made, and repeated traces created.
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Jen Fox – Landlines, glass sculpture, £1285
Glass carries a geological memory formed under pressure, once fluid and now still.
This piece looks at how we inhabit space, how we move through and interact with our surroundings. Exhibited in a place once created to acknowledge the body passing.
Goater Jenny – Dragon Scales
Noticing a pile of off-cuts of pylon wire left after work crossing his land, a friend asked ‘What are you doing with these?’. ‘Oh, nothing’ was the reply. ‘In that case’ says he, ‘I know someone who could use them’. And so a dragon was born ………Crafted from wire and a fabulous imagination the dragon welcomes visitors to this year’s trail.
£1850
Alison Henry – Sky Dancers. Swirling and twirling forms of aluminium wire, inspired by the flight patterns of Common Swifts when they dance in the sky seemingly for the sheer joy of living airborne. Their future is threatened – partly due to loss of nesting sites – and they need our help to ensure that they continue to grace our skies every summer. £75 each
Jarrett Andy – Mainly Working in steel, I love the creativity of producing sculptures for outdoor spaces that capture a wide range of natures raw beauty, all of which never fail to excite and fascinate me.
Louise Kosinska –
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?
Paeony Lewis – On the Edge: Chalk Streams
The River Glaven flows past Bayfield Hall. It’s one of 25 Norfolk chalk streams, of which only about 220 exist in the world, with 85% in England. It’s a rare, precarious habitat, struggling to survive.
The discordant installation uses the materiality of analogue photograms, reprinted on recycled acrylic sheets.
Photobook available at ticket office
Liz Maw – My work explores line as a physical object, not just a mark, lifting it off the page to investigate its potential to redefine our perception of space and surface.
Website: https://www.elizabethmaw.co.uk/
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MicroKino – Award winning animations in our new cinema space at Bayfield. Curated by Professor Suzie Hanna and featuring some of our favourites from the well established Raveningham Sculpture Trail MicroKino.
All is Not Lost
Daniel Greaves and Ruth Beni
When a cataclysmic volcanic eruption flings a jumble of debris deep into a dark underground cave, these shattered components of life, an assortment of shells, sticks, eyes, rocks and limbs driven by the eternal instinct for survival, quickly reassemble into new living creatures.
All is Not Lost blends suspense with humour and has a highly distinctive visual style fusing natural objects with specially crafted materials. The technique is an inventive and original combination of stop-motion and drawn animation.
Cadence
Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore
A constellation of common wildflowers, gathered during walks on reclaimed land along the shore of an estuary and pressed onto upcycled 35mm film, once used for spacing during analogue film-making.
Derek and His Shells
Phoebe Halstead
In the quiet backwaters of south Norfolk there is a broad, and by that broad there is a house, and at the back of that house there is a caravan. And in that caravan is Derek and his shells…
This animated documentary celebrates Derek and his love for local wildlife and work to conserve it.
A film by Phoebe Halstead and Angie Phillips, who collaborate as Arc Studio
Night Vision
Alison Harvey
The inspiration for this film was to highlight the beauty of night-time and the serious decline of true darkness. Painting directly onto glass under the camera, the artist has captured the transformative qualities of cycling through her local landscape at night, where light and shade merge to reveal abstract forms and patterns, altering perspectives and perception of the natural world.
Quarantine
Astrid Goldsmith
Quarantine is a post-Brexit pagan dance fantasy, about a troupe of Morris-dancing badgers on the south coast of England, who are trying to avoid the animal quarantine compound which has been built above their burrow. As they try to keep their old folk traditions alive, they ignore the plight of the caged quarantine inmates. But when tragedy strikes, a young badger goes rogue, risking exile from the troupe as he forges a new forbidden friendship on the other side of the bars.
The Youngest Sailor
Suzie Hanna
From 2024 album ‘ In the Dark We Grow’ this mixed media shadow animation illustrates a story of love across the oceans, a young sailor’s aspirations and the girl on the shore.
Music: Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage
Litter Pecker
Maisie Race
In this mockumentary, we meet John, a litter-picking pigeon who’s just been promoted. John values work more than anything else, but it’s not just a job – it’s his passion. He is a proud artist in his spare time, creating sculptures with the litter he finds. Some may view John’s lifestyle as mundane, but he sees the beauty in everything and is content with his little life as a litter picker.
Verity Newman – Macro Viewpoints – Wood, steel, polyester – front lawn. Originally made in 2018 whilst pregnant with my son, to condense the vast views across the north Norfolk marshes and installed in a raised wildflower bed at the NWT Centre, Cley-next-the-Sea. Little did I know at the time that my son would inherit Colour Vision Deficiency (colour blindness) and not be able to see red tones normally. CVD is present in 1 out of every 12 males and 1 out of every 200 females and affects their perception of the world, as well as their education and job opportunities. As part of my current research into sensory perception, I decided to re-site Macro Viewpoints at ground level to be more accessible for people to interact with. The Bayfield Hall site is ideal, being a more formal setting, which offers both sweeping and more intimate viewpoints through which to reframe the landscape.
Washed up – Nylon, light, found plastics and textiles – shepherds hut. Both fascinated and dismayed in equal measures by the beach detritus I find on our coastline, my installation imagines a future landscape half submerged from flooding, where mutated sea flora can be found washed up in the most unexpected of places. Fused with non-recyclable plastics and materials from our wasteful fashion industry, these morphed ocean forms have found their way from the sea and along the River Glaven into the abandoned shepherd’s hut at Bayfield Hall, entangled in their nests for all eternity. In reality, vast areas of the east and north Norfolk coastline are projected to be
under water and/or below the annual flood level by 2050, due to the threats of erosion and climate change, if nothing is done.
Oaktree and Acorn – A Flight of Fantasy.
A father who is an illustrator and a son who has an active imagination and a passion for mythology and storytelling are a pretty formidable duo.
With fourteen years of telling stories together and then trying to bring those imaginings to life, we are delighted to bring these flying fiends to Bayfield for our first year.
This piece builds on our ongoing 2025 project, “East Anglia but with Monsters” which has been a creative outlet for us both when not working towards the release of This One Last Time (a board game which is soon to launch on a crowdfunding site near you.)
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Esther Pacitti – Earth
The alchemy of Glass making has been giving light, warmth and inspiration for centuries. It offers us a feeling of strength, hope and safety that is paramount in our current times. ‘Earth’ is an ode to our surroundings. Housed in wood and metal, the stained glass gives a chance to reflect and see through the light and density of natural material. ‘Earth’ has been made by myself, in collaboration with Jason Scott who bought the structure of this piece to life.
Joanna Reynolds – Wood Henge
The idea for my Woodhenge stems from my interest in archaeology and a programme that I watched about Stonehenge. I remembered that we had our own henge in Norfolk at Holme next sea. I was lucky to see it on the beach before it was removed and the sense of place has stayed with me. I want to recreate that feeling of mystery with my woodhenge installation.
Gordon Senior – Compressed Sphere Series, the sculptures include casts of arable plants, seeds and chickens. Frozen moments in time selected from plants and animals lifecycles inviting consideration of evolution, natural selection, cultivation, and natures significance to us. The sculptures are concerned with a sense of place, geology, and the present thoughts about our intentions towards arable landscapes.
I use a range of different materials such as bronze, resin as well as sands and chippings which when added to cement and polished produces a terrazzo-like surface, historically used by the Italians reflecting the flint and chalk-strewn farmed landscapes around my studio.
Meryem Siemmond – My Lady – Bath Stone hand carved – £1450
Meryem believes that creativity is simply our natural human instincts; it is what being human is all about. Each stone’s natural beauty is usually her starting point into exploring organic shapes. Her style is between realism and abstraction, allowing our imagination do its work: magical realism….
Meryem takes part in international festivals, symposiums and workshops as a participant and tutor. Sessions are available with her at Butley Mills Studios too. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is an established artist on the sculpture trail route.
www.meryemsiemmond.com @meryemsiemmond
Sonic Moth – Ambient – Drone – Synth Cassette label – work in progress Bandcamp. Sound installation created using field recordings made on site at Raveningham.
Bee Springwood – I love working with trees and shrubs, as material and setting.
Dogwood has wonderful vibrant colours when fresh cut green, yellow and red in late winter. Now, as it ages into the autumn, the strands I have woven earlier change their hue to red, amber and black.
I venerate Eucalyptus that sheds and renews her bark and leaves too, so the opportunity to weave a pathway/ skirt to this tree is too good to miss.
Merlin Summers – Mr Reece I. Kul’ is made from recycled materials to encourage people to engage with the idea of sustainability in an imaginative and creative way.
Sarah White – My process transforming discarded textile waste utilising natural prints and combining threads into a piece that provokes feelings, just for living now’. This illustrates my power of expression through nature, lifestyle and values.
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