Weekends 1 & 2

Jan Dingle is an established printmaker who took up printmaking - in particular etching - about the same time as she and her husband acquired an old wooden Noroflk Broads cruiser for family holidays. For more years now than Jan really likes to admit to, she has combined cruising the Norfolk Broads and sourcing the inspiration for the majority of the etchings she produces to this day. Even the etchings from other places are mainly inspired by waterways, from the English canals to the Nile in Egypt.

Jan Dingle originally studied graphic design at Hornsey College of Art, turning to etching whilst raising a family. She learnt to etch in Rochester and was absorbed by the medium from the first sight of a bubble on a copper-plate in nitric acid. The medium of etching is very complex, but Jan found that because the concentration needed to create a plate was so intense, it was the one art form that could be picked up and put down easily unlike a painting which often has to be worked from beginning to end. 

Jan Dingle has watched and recorded in her etchings the changing face of the Norfolk Broads, from the intensive farming in the early years to the emphasis on conservation that prevails today with the barren fields of set-aside.