Michael Eatherley
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings

4th — 12th April

Open daily 11:00 - 17:00
Closed Sundays. Free admission.

I was born in England and as a child lived in Brazil where my father managed a coffee plantation.  My working life has been as a civil and structural engineer mostly in London.  At the same time I have always loved drawing and painting and have learned most of what I do from visits to museums and galleries and particularly from a number of gifted artist friends that I have known for much of my life, most notably Emily Gwynne-Jones and June Collier.  I have attended various life drawing classes and groups including one with Cecil Collins at the City-Lit in London. I attended sculpture workshops at the art school in Kingston, Jamaica whist working there many years ago.  I have had a strong connection with Norfolk for about 50 years and now live in Corpusty.

In painting I enjoy playing with colour and composition and sometimes with the suggestion of an untold story.  My studio paintings are mostly in oil.  Outside I use watercolours. Drawings are largely in charcoal or in ink for more animated sketches.