{"id":709,"date":"2019-09-14T12:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T12:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spoonerrow.cc\/?page_id=709"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:39:14","slug":"recollections-dee-nickerson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.spoonerrow.cc\/?page_id=709","title":{"rendered":"Recollections – Dee Nickerson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was born in the cottages directly opposite Providence Place, Spooner Row, where my grandparents, Thomas and Cecily Lord, lived and farmed, to their middle son, Colin, and Phyllis, nee Gent. My mothers parents farmed in Suton. One of my first recollections is of a little shop opposite our cottage that had an enormous wooden counter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was about 2, we moved to Church Farm in Wattlefield.  It was rented by my grandfather from the Wattlefield estate. It was a magical place for my brother and I to explore and use our imagination with meadows, ponds, ditches and water courses, a kind of green lane that filled with wild flowers of every kind, overgrown woody areas, and knobbly oak trees with crevices to hide treasures of stones and shells and plundered fruits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nswinging sixties were only glimpsed in magazines and on tv and didn’t seem to\nquite reach Wattlefield, much to my disappointment.  I remember the big freeze in 1962.  We were kept indoors mostly, which wasn’t\nmuch warmer unless huddled next to the temperamental Rayburn stove.  I also recall waking up at the end of the\nsixties to see a river pouring round the buildings in Station Road and Queen\nStreet, and going to help people in Spooner Row where houses and the village\nshop had been flooded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nwent to Spooner Row Primary School, at first in a taxi that collected children\nfrom outside the village and then, as I got older, I had to cycle in all\nweathers.  The horrors of trying to\navoid huge numbers of frogs and toads that crossed the lane from pond to\npond, and seeing those that didn’t make it!  We passed cherry and apple orchards, and often\nmet Mrs Leyton who lived on Chapel Road, with her bicycle piled high with twigs\nand sticks for her fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\nschool was practically Victorian when I first started but became progressive\nduring my time there and we had a modern, all encompassing education. I won two\nnational art prizes there, and discovered a love of books and nature, that have\nshaped my adult life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My\ngrandfather grew blackcurrants, gooseberries and loganberries so the summer\nholidays were looked forward to, starting with fruit picking, ending with\nstacking bales, and riding my cousin\u2019s pony across endless stubble fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nmoved from the area in the mid seventies and I began to develop my painting\ncareer, going to Great Yarmouth College of Art in the early eighties.  I moved to Suffolk in the nineties and started\nexhibiting in local galleries, had cards produced by Green Pebble (a publisher\nof fine art greeting cards), and was featured in Country Living magazine in\nJanuary 2017, which has meant my paintings are now widely collected.  I now show in Norwich, Southwold, Sherborne\nand London on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\nlot of my inspiration still comes from my early years spent in lovely but\nlonely Wattlefield, being in and watching nature and the changes of seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you to Dee for providing one of our main website images. Should you wish to see more of her work please visit Green Pebble, the publishers of her artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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