Hedingham Fair

Karen and Colin Cater set up Hedingham Fair in 1997, as a way of bringing Karen's art to a wider audience, primarily folk enthusiasts and Pagans but really anyone with an interest in the traditional culture of the English people.

Karen trained in graphics at St Martin's in London, then at Norwich. When she found folk music, suddenly art seemed a bit tedious and the chance to take flight for Germany and spend a year busking with a bunch of mad Irish musicians was too good to miss. After that came a job designing glass engravings, running a wildlife rescue service on the Norfolk coast in her spare time, working with oiled birds, the occasional hedgehog and stray cats, and then a family who are now grown and nearly flown. Somehow along the way the earth, celebrating the seasons, music, dance and ancient belief systems have all melded together. Art and life have become a single whole in the gloriously strong imagery of Karen's linocuts, which continue a tradition of English illustration dating back to the invention of printing.

Colin poodles around in post career fulfillment, the odd song and bit of music here, spiced with the occasional Morris Dance (playing, not dancing) and a passion for words and books. He has been known to write the odd tune or few words but mainly keeps the world off Karen's back.

Together Karen and Colin believe that England's ancient heritage should be fully appreciated by anyone sympathetic to it, also that it is dynamic, both changing and remaining continuous as with the rhythm of life itself. They can sing and play a bit too!