28 April to 10 May
Step into Snap Crackle Pop — a punchy burst of colour, imagination, and playful absurdity that grabs you from the first glance. This exhibition brings together bold paintings, striking sculptures, playful collages, and mixed media, all bursting with pop-style energy and surreal, dreamlike twists. Expect the unexpected.
It’s loud, it’s bizarre, it’s joyful – and it will stay with you long after you leave. If you’re craving something fresh, exciting, and a little bit mind-bending, Snap Crackle Pop isn’t just an exhibition… it’s an experience you won’t want to miss.
6 artists. each interpreting the theme in their own unique way
JÉRÉME CROW
Jéréme Crow is a painter based on the east coast of England, where he creates introspective works that explore themes of experience, nostalgia and melancholy. His paintings often return to the recurring motif of self-portraiture, allowing him to examine and express the complexities of identity and emotion. Through his work, Jéréme delves into the emotional landscapes of memory and personal reflection, creating art that resonates with viewers on a personal level.
In 2025 Jéréme was shortlisted in the final 50 of The British Art Prize and had a painting displayed at The British Art Prize 2025 exhibition at Oxo Gallery, London.
He won the Harley Open Exhibition in 2017, going on to have a solo exhibition at the Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire in 2019.
Artists statement:
My current project ‘The Art of Small Things: Portraits of the Everyday’ is a growing collection of intimate still life paintings that explore our deep and often overlooked relationships with objects, memory, and nostalgia. In this series, I invite the viewer to step closer, to look more deeply, and to discover the quiet beauty that resides in the simplest things around us.
Focusing on small, familiar, and often quirky objects—things that might otherwise go unnoticed; a plastic skull, a broken doll, a well-worn kitchen scourer; each piece is captured with expressive brushwork and vibrant colour. These seemingly ordinary items are transformed into something extraordinary, as the paintings reveal their hidden stories and subtle emotional weight.
The small scale of the paintings encourages a personal connection, drawing the viewer into a reflective moment, inviting them to recall their own memories and experiences. These objects, though simple, carry with them a sense of nostalgia, connecting us to the past, to stories untold, and to the emotions we associate with them.
Through my work, I aim to capture the essence of what makes the everyday remarkable—the beauty that is often overlooked in the rush of daily life. The Art of Small Things: Portraits of the Everyday is an invitation to pause, to reflect, and to rediscover the joy and meaning found in the small, quiet moments and objects that surround us.
Instagram: @jeremecrow
SAM CROW
Sam Crow is a mixed media artist with a huge love for stories and storytelling in all its forms. She has over 20 years’ experience as a practicing artist, taking part in exhibitions worldwide, including the Curio gallery in Portugal, the Good Goat Gallery U.S.A, the Cactus gallery U.S.A, the Inverarity gallery in Scotland , the inaugural exhibition for the Seance gallery in Portugal, and most recently for the Cupola Gallery.
Sam grew up in the far East and Germany, and a couple of unprepared boarding schools, always with a pen in one hand and a book in another, either reading stories or scribbling down the bizarre characters she met, or imagined, and developing an insatiable appetite for stories and storytelling and everything magically theatrical along the way..
Sam trained first as a mural artist, then as a theatre and costume designer, specializing in costume, before scaling down to work on much tinier pieces!
Her subject matter is heavily influenced by her childhood travels, and great love of all forms of storytelling, especially fairy and folk tales( both dark and light), andalso puppets and costume design. It depicts characters from life or imagination that just want to come out to pose, with an added touch of humour- (probably with a pinch of dark, or a slightly absurd twist , and all with the glee of childlike play.)
Sam often sets to work with only a little spark of an idea and lets it grow and develop as she plays and creates…
She is happiest when creating, surrounded by fabrics, ink, paint, clay and their associated mess and potential, and always has a huge smile for creativity and stories and the characters they contain. She hopes her work will make you smile too.
Her most recent one of a kind mixed media sculptures are called Grimmblee Bugs- the curious creatures that set up home inside our minds — invisible to most, definitely peculiar, and occasionally frustrating. They’re the ones who hide your keys, who make you crave snacks at the oddest times, who tangle your thoughts and mysteriously steal socks. They are the Doers, the Thinkers, the Forgetters, the Seekers, and the Glitches… The Bugs.
Instagram: @samscuriouscreatures
FIONA HODGES
Fiona is a medium-hopping, genre-blending artist – shaping stories, moods, and moments.
She is always curious, always learning, so you can’t pin her down to one theme or style. She aims to create narrative-driven works that range from surreal and symbolic to more direct and accessible forms of storytelling.
Human and animal forms sometimes merge within her work, reflecting shifting identities while introducing moments of humour and gentle absurdity. She moves fluidly between materials, allowing each work to find the medium that best supports its narrative, and embraces experimentation as a vital part of her process.
In this exhibition she will be showing a combination of work that fits the theme of pop and surreal art, including ceramic sculpture, painting and collage.
She exhibits regularly in exhibitions local to Lincolnshire. Further afield her art has been selected for the ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries in London, John Ruskin Prize, Wells Art Contemporary, SAA Artists of the Year and VAA International Online.
She is one of the resident artists who own and run Indigo Crow Gallery.
Instagram: @fionahodgesart
MEL LANGTON
Mel is a Lincoln based designer and illustrator who loves to create unique and vibrant artwork, bringing exciting ideas to life. She regularly produces commissioned artwork for both business and private customers.
Her passion is creating eye-catching original designs that connect with people to empower and inspire.
She enjoys creating artwork using both traditional and digital hand-drawn techniques. Her digital work is created using Procreate, which allows her to create colour-popping designs, but with the ease of editing. She also loves to work more traditionally, using acrylic inks, watercolour, brush-markers and metallic inks.
Mel is also often seen at Indigo Crow Gallery, where she is one of the resident artists who run the gallery.
Instagram: @mellangtonart
SOPHIE TAYLOR
I began exploring various mixed media art forms as a way to retreat from chronic illness; it offers me a way to mentally escape the physical pain.
After finding a passion for gel plate printing, collage became a natural way to combine pattern, colour and shape. Incorporating vintage collage materials from the 1950s to 1970s to my original prints allows me to add a narrative and voice to my pieces. Many of the topical issues faced in the mid-century onwards are still relevant now, posing questions about progress in social justice in the present day.
My escapism from the everyday can be found in my Artist Trading Card (ATC) collages, these smaller format works often feature surreal, absurd and nonsensical scenarios. Animals as humans, interrelationships between species; anything goes. Most importantly, it allows me to make art purely and momentarily for the sole pleasure of creating.
Instagram: @sophielovescolour
ELIZABETH WATSON
Elizabeth Watson is a British artist whose vibrant, pop‐infused paintings draw on a rich blend of cultural influences and a lifelong fascination with colour, character, and nostalgia. A graduate of the University of Brighton, where she earned her degree in Illustration, Elizabeth developed a visual language rooted in bold block colours, geometric patterns, and striking compositional clarity. Her work reflects a deep appreciation for the artists and image‐makers who shaped her creative outlook: the playful, exuberant colour palettes of Peter Blake; the raw, intimate stylistic presence of Lucian Freud; and the candid, sharply observed photography of Martin Parr.
Elizabeth’s paintings often celebrate the icons and aesthetics of the 1960s and 1970s—an era she finds inspiring for its fashion, music, and cultural energy. Pop icons, models, and figures from this period frequently appear in her work, reimagined through her distinctive graphic style.
Her art has been exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair in London as well as in several galleries across Brighton. Additionally, Elizabeth runs a successful Etsy store, IndieDollStudio, where she sells original works as well as prints and products that bring her colourful, retro‐inspired aesthetic to a wider audience.
Instagram: @indiedollstudio