Art in nature to inspire and soothe the soul.
Artists have created works in response to the theme of Ritual and 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, Europe and USA with a wealth of talent, experience and imagination to help create our 5th uplifting Bayfield Hall Sculpture Trail.
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.
www.dandelionmosaics.com
www.instagram.com/dandelion_mosaics
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 – FIGURE
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.
Arnie Barton – Barn Owl and Bogwood
Archie Browning – Barn Owl and Bogwood
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.
Viv Burns
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.
Dom Cooper
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.
Laura 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.
Liz Cannell – RITUAL; stitching recycled shirts as a form of ritual.
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…
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
Celia Halifax – 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.
Fiona Hammond – 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.
Hannah Hardy – 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.
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 Severyn Kosinska –
Lucy Lutyens – 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
Andy Maule – What you want it to be. Steel, copper wire, plastic ball
This work means very different things to different people: “a life within a life”; “the big bang”; “you, at the heart of everything”; “the source”; and many other suggestions. Subjected to the elements it becomes kinetic and slowly transformative, perhaps a metaphor for our time.
Jane McClintock – 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/
Instagram: @elizabethmaw
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Kate Munro – 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/
Instagram: @elizabethmaw
Facebook: Liz Maw
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/
Instagram: @elizabethmaw
Facebook: Liz Maw
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.
Sculpture Trails Film Festival 2026 – featuring work from UK, Germany, USA and Spain.
Nik Montali – 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 current research into sensory
Robert Moore – 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 current research into sensory
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.)
Insta- @oaktree.acorn
www.thisonelasttime.com
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Joy Pitts – Bayfield Countess
My piece for Bayfield will focus on the RITUALS of caring for dogs, their companionship, daily walks and how dogs anchor us to our surroundings. Here at Bayfield, there is a long history of dog ownership with many marked graves around the chapel in remembrance. I would like to focus on the three pedestal (plinth) graves remembering Countess, Nimble (1904), and Desma. My idea is to use discarded plastic plant labels to assemble coats for the dogs, making a connection between daily dog walks and the great outdoors.
www.joypitts.co.uk @joynextthesea
Bee Springwood – 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.
Lizzy Sainsbury
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.
Monica Wheeler – 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.
Sonic Moth – Ambient – Drone – Synth Cassette label – work in progress Bandcamp. Sound installation created using field recordings made on site at Raveningham.
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