The Naze Tower art gallery is a truly unique experience, perhaps the most exciting thing being the climb up the spiral staircase to the roof-viewing platform. From the open top the panoramic views are breathtaking the land and seascape of Essex and Suffolk and as far as Kent on a clear day.
Within its metre thick walls and over 8 floors the Naze Tower houses: an Art Gallery - showing and selling diverse works by established and emerging artists often from the region, a Museum and Information Centre - about the fascinating history of the Tower and the special environment of the Naze.

Opening Times
1st April to 31st October everyday 10am to 5pm
(Weekend before Easter when in March)
Weekends in March and November dependent on weather, phone 01255 852519  for information. Educational and community groups can visit out of season if booked, phone 01255 852519.

Access
Wheelchair access to ground floor with Reception, Shop and Tea Room counter.
Spiral Staircase - 11 Steps to Tea Room seating inside / seating outside fully accessible. 111 Steps to top of tower - climb made easier as 8 floors with chairs on each and artworks and museum to slow you down!
 

Dawn Hall works from her home studio in Walton on the Naze.

Previous commissions for Royal Mail have been displayed in the Dept of Trade and one piece was presented to the Prime Minister. Sales at Lloyd's of London’s yearly Exhibition took her to the city but she much prefers being part of the local art community on the East Coast. Most of her work is inspired by local scenes.

Most recently her work appeared on Anglia TV’s Coastal Inspirations with Paul Gogarty. Especially noted were her limited edition prints of the local area.

Exhibition List:

You can find Dawn's work at the following galleries;

• Arna Farrington Gallery High Street, Thorpe le Soken

• Caxton Books & Gallery 37 Connaught Avenue, Frinton on Sea

• Naze Tower (Seasonal), The Naze, walton-on-the-Naze

• Marinestore Titchmarsh Marina, Coles Lane, Walton-on-the-naze.

• Walton Tea Rooms Walton-on-the-Naze

• Harbour Lights Titchmarsh Marina, Walton-on-the-Naze

• Little Bentley Show June 2007

• Lloyds Of London Annual Exhibition

Bath Academy of Art BA(Hons) 1980. Goldsmiths College of Art MA 1986.

Themes in her work: Family history. World history. Self history.
Local history. The individual as part of an emergent pattern. Letting go of the system that controls you. Giving the viewer access to the controls. Layering connections. Finding visual clues.

Projects:

• Sept 2007 to date - Level Best Art Cafe, 3 Culver Street East, Colchester, CO1 -  Artist in Residence for a not-for-profit social enterprise supporting adults with learning disabilities.

• May - June 2007 - Frinton Primary School - Artist in Residence during Art and Maths week http://janeostler.co.uk/chaos.html

• Oct 2007 - Tollesbury Creative Group - "Drawing with Paint: Out of the Comfort Zone", one day workshop.

• Jul 2007 - Tollesbury Creative Group - "Finding Inspiration" Talk.

• May - June 2007 - Frinton on Sea Primary School - "Art and Maths: Finding patterns in chaos". Whole school project.

• Dec 2004-July 2005 - CSV Media Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk - Taught Diploma courses in Media Techniques: Web Page Design, Editing Digital Images: Introduction to Photoshop, Dreamweaver for Beginners.

• Nov 2004 - Harlow Old Town, Essex - Harlow Arts CD Cover/Disc Design Workshop,

• Sept-2004-Mar 2005 - duckegg.org - Painting Class, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.

• 2003 - Colchester Borough Council - Artist in Residence for National AIDS day.

• Jun 2002, 2003, 2004 - Frinton-on-Sea County Primary School, Essex -
  Talk & workshops : School Alphabet/ "What an Artist Does" /Clay Cats Art & Grounds Week, Sets for "Cinders".

• 2001 - Firstsite @ The Minories Art Gallery - Colchester Half-Term Workshop for children re. "Trauma" Exhibition" : 3D plaster & paint reliefs.

Exhibition List:

• Corsham Revisited - Jul 2007 - Fairfield House, 44 High Street, Corsham, Wiltshire

• Naze Tower Gallery - Apr-May 2007 - Old Hall Lane, Walton

• Arna Farrington Gallery - Dec 2006 - High Street, Thorpe

• Spirit @ The Chapel - Sept 2006 - Thorpe Road, Kirby Cross

• Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital - Apr-Sept 2006 - NHS Trust, Main Hospital Street, Level 3

• Life Cafe - Open Studios 2006 - Colchester

• Essex Scene - Aug 2006 - County Hall, Chelmsford

• Corsham Contacts - 2005 - Harleston Gallery, 37-39 The Thoroughfare Harleston, Norfolk

• Caxton Books & Gallery - 2005 - Connaught Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea

• Hay Gallery 'Colchester Fine Art Open' - 2003 - Colchester School of Art Colchester Institute, Sheepen Road, Colchester

• Hay Gallery 'Art & Health Connecting Cultures' - 2001 - Colchester Institute, Sheepen Road, Colchester

Nigel has been interested in photography since 1982 when he bought his first camera - an Olympus OM10 + lenses. This served him very well for years capturing images of rock stars, including Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger, at the many concerts he frequented.

His love of birdwatching began in 1988, and took him on many overseas trips including USA, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. His experiences from his visits to the Great Lakes area of Canada was published as an article several years ago in the Essex Birds journal.

His favourite genus is the gull family and this group of birds has become an obsessional study. His desire to see and photograph all the world's species of gull resulted in a national birding magazine (Birdwatching) writing a five-page article about him.

Nigel has been following the life of a now famous disabled Herring Gull called Leggy which frequents Walton seafront. He has been tracking the bird for over three years and has over 2,000 pictures showing the bird's progress towards adult plumage.

Nigel now uses Canon and Nikon camera equipment, and shoots both conventional film and on digital, which gives him the speed and performance needed for wildlife photography.

Awards:

• Essex Wildlife Trust Photographic Award in 2006

• Best of Tendring Photographic Award in 2004

Exhibitions:

• Naze Tower Gallery - Apr-May 2004 - 2008, The Naze, Old Hall Lane, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex CO14 8HH

• Walton Tea Rooms - 2008 -Walton-on-the-Naze

• Caxton Books & Gallery - 2008 - Connaught Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea

• Walton Library - 2008 - High Street, Walton-on-Naze

• Abberton Wildlife Centre - 2005 - 2006 - Abberton

• Manning tree, Harwich & Clacton Libraries - 2003 - 2004

Putmans is a long established photographic business having been founded in Walton in 1921.

Peter Frost has more than forty years experience in photographing people and although now semi-retired he is pleased to photograph families and children in client’s homes or on location.

Putmans are renowned for their Photo Restoration and Enhancement Service. Peter is also custodian of a large archive of photographs of people and places from Walton-on-the-Naze in years gone by. Some of the archive can be viewed on his web site.
 

UK:
Address: LOSTTOWN @ Walton Community Project, 61 High Street, Walton-on-the-Naze
CO14 8AG

Germany:
Address: NIEMANN INGRISCH Architects, Thalkirchner Str. 81, 81371 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49 89 44239656

e-mail: office@losttown.net
Web: www.losttown.net

The Idea
LOST TOWN is a dramatic project designed to explain the impact of coastal erosion and the forces of nature which control it. By rebuilding the lost church of medieval Walton as a steel sculpture, the project aims to create a unique landmark, commemorating the East of Englands lost towns while letting visitors experience the history of the place.

Our idea is to rebuild the lost church of medieval Walton as a sculpture in the sea. A symbolic structure at the site were - some hundered years ago – was land. Every medieval town or village had a church. They were major buildings and landmarks - Sailors used the towers as navigation aid. We use the church not in its religious sense but as a symbol for a settlement. How to turn a church into a marine sculpture? The sculpture has the generic shape and the size of a medieval church with a tower and a nave. It has the characteristics of a medieval church like columns and verticality.

Transparency
It represents something that once was real and is now gone. We wanted to give it an unreal, ghostly look. Therefore, it is composed of an addition of one simple element:  A steel pile. The sculpture consists of 41 piles of different lengths with a diameter of 70 cm.

The degree of transparency changes according to the position of the spectator. From different viewpoints, e. g. walking along the beach, it looks like a closed volume, or you can look through and see the horizon. Another reason for the use of piles comes from a technical point of view: Wind and waves can pass through.
The sculpture will have to withstand the same enormous forces that are constantly eroding the cliffs.

Reflecting Surface
The piles are made of stainless steel which resists sea water and protects against corrosion. By polishing, they become a highly reflecting surface. The reflecting surface adopts the colours of the surroundings: The appearance of the sculpture will change according to sunlight and weather condition. The sun and the ocean become part of the artwork.

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