'I don't think that I've ever really had any choice in the matter of actually being an artist,' says Amelia Bowman.

Creativity certainly seems to be in the blood. She is the fourth generation of women in her family to be an artist - and it's looking like her daughter may be the fifth.

'She's certainly got the bug,' she says.

Amelia is known for her colourful, nostalgia-tinged prints, homewares and tote bags, many of which feature landmarks of the Norfolk coast - Holkham beach, Blakeney marshes, Cromer Pier, the candy-striped beach huts at Wells and Cley Windmill.

Amelia Bowman at a pop-up in Jarrolds. Photo: Amelia Bowman Her studio is a converted garage at her home in Wymondham where she creates her work using a technique called collagraph on a printing press fashioned from a vintage mangle.

Amelia's mother had encouraged her creativity from an early age - and colour has always been an important element in her work.

Throughout her GCSEs and A levels she focused on painting and sculpting – her mum is a sculptor – and she then studied textiles at what was then known as Norwich School of Art and Design.

Always interested in the technical side of making, Amelia started creating brightly coloured jewellery made with dyed and manipulated plastic.

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