Marshchapel Arts 2025

Marshchapel Arts supports St Mary’s Church with various events throughout the year. These popular events are well supported by the community.

Marshchapel Arts 2025 Post Update

On behalf of Marshchapel Arts, thank you to all those artists who contributed towards making our 2025 Exhibition such a success. We sold over £11,000 pounds worth of artwork on your behalf and together with entry fees, refreshments and donations we netted over £6000 profit which supports the maintenance and fabric of St Mary’s Church. 
 
We have achieved our target of restoring the bells, adding to make a peal of six and returning them to the belfry on a new steel frame. This brings a whole new family of visiting bell ringers to Marshchapel to enjoy them.  
 
We could not do this without the high quality of your workmanship and the support and enthusiasm that you bring to our Exhibition. Thank you so much!
 
The public visited us in greater numbers this year and so we are very pleased to have a growing reputation for quality, variety and pricing that attracts a wide audience. Please keep spreading the word! 
Special congratulations to our winners, Natalie Swan and Laura Andrew who were judged as ‘best in show’ by the public and by our guest judge respectively. Also to the three artists who cleared their boards by selling every one of their exhibited paintings – very well done.

You can still view the 2025 art exhibition by using the virtual tour below.

Marshchapel Arts

Located in the Lincolnshire village of Marshchapel, the group raises funds, through it’s annual exhibition and various musical events, to help maintain St. Mary’s Church building .

All funds raised, after costs, are donated to the Church for its upkeep. It is run solely for this purpose by a team of unpaid volunteers. See St Mary’s latest work to the bells and bell frame here.

2025 Artists

In the run up to our Exhibition we will be giving you a few tasters of what you might expect to see on the boards this year. In particular, we will be featuring some of the ‘new’ artists who have not exhibited at Marshchapel in previous years.

Welcome to Lynn Norris another of our talented local artists whose paintings and popular range of greetings cards will be on sale at the Marshchapel Exhibition for the first time this year….

“I am a professional artist and tutor based in Fotherby, Louth. I exhibit and sell pieces of my work, including an extensive range of greeting cards. I teach art classes and workshops in Louth.
I am inspired by my surroundings, I love a view, an atmospheric sky, a colourful flower, the light catching the water. I love to capture colour and light, to transform what I see with a beautiful glow.
I have a fine art degree and have tried a wide variety of mediums and subjects. I enjoy mixing mediums and adding texture to my work. In recent years I have enjoyed painting in watercolour the most, this medium allows me to express, great light, fluidity, colour and atmosphere in my paintings, but most of all I enjoy the unpredictable nature of the medium wet in wet and the creation of a unique piece of work every time.”

Another artist ‘new’ to Marshchapel is Catherine Nicholson who studied Fine Art Sculpture in Manchester and subsequently Bronze Casting at the Royal College of Art in London. She has been painting for many years and teaching Art, Design and Additional Support Needs in Secondary Schools in Scotland. She has recently moved back to her home County of Lincolnshire to develop her art. Welcome Catherine. We look forward to seeing your watercolour paintings which capture the exquisite detail and beauty of the natural world alongside this acrylic work of Fisherman’s Cottages.
Medina Hammad has exhibited in various locations in the UK and also in Philadelphia and Khartoum. She is a member of the Lincolnshire Artists’ Society.
“As an artist, I have always tried to register my thoughts and feelings about major experiences in my imagery. People often comment on a dreamlike quality in my work. I think this is because memory has always fascinated me – principally how focus changes and how things shift in and out.”
Welcome Medina and thank you for sharing your reflections on what inspires your painting.
We are delighted to welcome Eve Marshall to Marshchapel this year. 
“It all begins with a bit of fluff and a lot of imagination. I use a bold colour palette and layer wool fibres with silks and other textures to create my felt work. Most of my pieces have over 50 layers of wool on them before I begin the wet felting process. Once the fibres have felted and the piece has shrunk, I use a single felting needle to add tiny realistic details. The longer that you look at my work, the more details you will see. The art I create is a mixture of wet and needle felting techniques that I have developed over the past 17 years of my practice. My most popular artworks are of woodlands and gardens.
For my Odd Bird Tree series I have decided to fill the trees with a variety of my favourite birds plus a couple extra funky ones. I love needle felting birds! I think the textures and shape of their feathers lend well to needle felting. I love to see how much detail I can get with my needle when creating birds and each one takes a couple of hours to add.”
‘There’s only one Keith Richards’ is the title of this stunning oil painting by one of our regular exhibitors to Marshchapel – Mick Craven. Mick took early retirement at 49 and took up painting having completed a course at Grimsby Art College. His favourite subjects apart from vintage rock stars includes anything ‘mechanical’ and he also produces pet portraits in both oils and pastel.
 
The many faces of Keith Richards over his 60 plus years in the Stones is one of Mick’s favourite subjects and he admits that he is reluctant to sell some of his paintings of the band. I can understand why. However this one will be for sale at Marshchapel later this month and I have to say this would make a great addition to any bar or man-cave!

Looking forward to meeting Claire West another ‘new to Marshchapel’ artist exhibiting at our exhibition in St Mary’s between May 22nd to 26th (Bank Holiday Weekend)

“I have worked as a full time artist for 15 years, working mostly in acrylic and lino printmaking. My work is very much concentrated on the joy of nature, I always aim to create happy works to lift the spirits.My acrylic paintings are on canvas and produced by layering random colours and marks allowing the works to develop organically. Each painting is very much a celebration of colour.
My Paintings are exhibited throughout the UK and can often be seen on television programmes as commissioned works. My Printmaking and Paintings are licensed through card companies
Many years ago I gained a Degree in Fine Art and recently have added to that with a Masters Degree in Creative Practice.”

……and here’s a taster of one of Claire’s works to lift your spirits…….

Village Hall

The hall was built on the current site in 1946. It hosts many events throughout the week and on a monthly basis. Available for hire throughout the year.

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St Mary’s Church

The church of St Mary’s is known locally as ‘The Cathedral of the Marshes’. The church has monthly services and is open during daylight hours for visitors.

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The Chapel

The Chapel is well supported by the village and holds events as well as a weekly ‘pop-in’ lunch. There are also numerous other groups who use the facilities.

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Marshchapel Arts

Marshchapel Arts host various music concerts and art exhibitions at St Mary’s church which are always well supported by the community and beyond.

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