News-Bio
September 2026
The new term begins Monday 7th September. There are places available for the Monday Group Art Class (7 to 10 year olds) £15 per person 4.20-5.20pm
Budding general art & design students who came to Moyses’s Hall Museum for The Faces exhibition thoroughly enjoyed the trip and have got really stuck in to creating their own portraits, this is an ongoing project in the studio during their art classes.
Latest Restoration News:
Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) Was an English mathematician who worked mostly on algebra. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics, and was a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge for 35 years. WHY am I telling you this? Because a plaster cast bust of this individual is sitting in my art studio awaiting restoration, as is a vintage Greene King ceramic plaque.
A badly damaged and fragile MC Escher inspired pencil drawing on paper, has been restored and collected by another thankful and happy customer.
Three family heirloom paintings and their frames have been cleaned and collected, the client sent this message: ‘Very many thanks Trudi, the pictures all look super, and I am so pleased to have been referred to you - great work, great service, knowledgable and meticulous restoration, all with a lovely, peaceful and relaxed attitude. I don’t generally do online reviews, but feel free to use the former as a review comment if you wish - genuinely really pleased with it all - thank you!’
A print of a tornado came to the studio with the signatures of the pilots and navigators faded to almost oblivion - now fully restored and the client (one of the pilots) incredibly pleased with the results.
I have finished and the client is delighted with my restoration of her beautiful double sided silk fabric embroidery, which was in desperate need of repair. I uncovered that it was actually a piece from Liberty of London dated 1910, finding out anything about objects brought to me for repair that was not previously known, is one of the highlights of this marvellous job!
Old NEWS - Good news!
Creativity and confidence grew at Lucy Adams House art classes.
Residents at Lucy Adams House in Bury St Edmunds recently took part in a six-week block of art classes, tutored by me. Giving them the opportunity to try something new, learn creative skills, and focus on their wellbeing.
I worked with residents to introduce the fundamentals of drawing through a relaxed, supportive approach. Over the six weeks, residents explored a range of basic art techniques and built their confidence step by step.
Residents shared that they really enjoyed the classes, particularly the opportunity to learn something new while spending time in a relaxed and creative environment. Many said the sessions helped them fill their time positively and expressed interest in continuing art in the future.
Art can play an important role in supporting wellbeing. Creative activities can help people relax, build confidence and provide a healthy distraction from day-to-day worries. For many residents at Lucy Adams House, the classes offered a chance to recharge, focus their minds and experience the sense of achievement that comes with learning a new skill.
I was privileged to be invited to host the classes and hope to offer more in the future. “It has been incredibly rewarding working with the residents at Lucy Adams House. Art can help build confidence, refresh the mind and give people a sense of pride in what they create. I’m very happy to have been part of something so positive.”
How it came about: I was contacted by one of the amazing Support Worker’s via email, she had found me online via my website. Many emails and phone calls ensued and a site visit arranged in late December to Lucy Adams House (part of Havebury Homes, a local, Bury St Edmunds housing provider offering social homes across East Anglia).
We had a soft launch - trial art class on 22/01/26 which went extremely well. I was then booked to host 5 more classes.
Older Restoration News:
Last year I restored several pieces of artwork, including The Old White Horse metal pub sign and an Australian 20th century oil painting.
Over the summer 2025 I restored 2 watercolours and 2 oil paintings.
The art studio was closed in June 2025, as I embarked on a Paper Conservation course at the Ionian University, Zakynthos.
Our spring term projects, were all about exploring and experimenting PRINTING without a press. Using sponges, and all manner of objects and materials found around the art room, to making our own cardboard and sponge ‘stamps’.
All of my students enjoyed the ‘Elephant’ projects last term, learning about the difference between African and India species, drawing, painting, making air-dry clay fridge magnets and embellishing their work with metallic paints and sparkly gem/jewels. Fabulous job!
In 2024 I was thrilled to have been asked to take part in the BBC Bitesize Schools Tour:
I was asked to be a panellist, talking about and answering questions relating to my art career, from children in year 7/8/9 which was an absolutely wonderful opportunity, to help the children understand my journey through school, further education, art school and work. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
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It was all about TINY ART in the summer of 2023 in Bury St Edmunds…
Our Tiny Art Gallery was displayed at Cookie Barista, 20 St John’s Street, Bury St Edmunds. Thank you at www.cookiebarista.co.uk
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PIZZA BOX ART in 2022, was a great success...
In conjunction with the fabulous modern art 'Moments' exhibition featuring Banksy's work no less, which was held at Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds. Art Around Town Bury ingeniously came up with a community project where by artists, colleges, schools and arty individuals could create pizza box art that was on view around Bury St Edmunds town centre, in galleries, shops, restaurants, all manner of venues and the like for all to see. At The Apex in the Arc there was a major exhibition of pizza box art. My art school students all took part and I have personally created 3 boxes, one was exhibited in Chelmer Fine Art (www.chelmerfineart.com) and the other two in Prezzo (www.prezzorestaurants.co.uk). For more information on this awesome project check out @artaroundtownbury @moyseshallmuseum on instagram
Through Covid and the lockdowns from 2020 to 2021 came…
BLIND 2020 VISION
I live in a dual vision world, my 1st is MYOPIA - My own Utopia - shortsighted blurr! and my 2nd is BESPECTACLED - 2020 vision through jamjar thick lenses!
Blind 2020 Vision is a collection combining artwork with glasses on and without glasses on. I draw random marks with pencil on paper with my less dominant hand (my left) without my spectacular spectacles off (ie; blind) as everything is a blur - I cannot make out detail in my ‘blind’ state, only fuzzy shapes and colours... Then bespectacled with 2020 vision, I draw what I can see in to the random pencil marks - I then add colour, in my first piece 'Daftodils' (sic) I have used water and natural ground pigments (golden ochre from www.cornelissen.com) keeping the work 'organic' as I only use paper, graphite pencil and the ground pigment.
Trudi was due to exhibit her ‘Blind 2020 Vision’ series and ‘Holy Stones’ at The Glass House in Bury St Edmunds on June 19/20/21 2020 - a group show called Tracks & Traces 2020, sadly due to covid this did not take place.
June 2020:
Melanie Lesser (www.visit-burystedmunds.co.uk - Bury St Edmunds & Beyond) Conservation & Restoration commission of Wolfie (aka Citizen Smith) Clean/re-preserve/stain/re-varnish previously made sculpture created for the 2015 Bury St Edmunds Wolf Trail, now owned by Guy & Melanie Lesser.
February - March 2020:
Fiona Glasswell (www.glasswells.co.uk - Bury St Edmunds) Decorative arts commission - unique own creation - specialist finish on 2 x plinths. Clean/paint/apply specialist finish layers/varnish.
May 2019
I worked on several ideas in my fabulous NEW studio in Rushbrooke in 2019, one of which is the ‘GIVE BACK SERIES’ of ‘Holy Stones’ In response to life as I see it, we (humans) 'have been raping and pillaging planet earth for far too long and now is the time to ‘Give Back’.' Using gold, silver and copper leaf metals collected over the years, combined with suitable worn pebbles found from the UK’s coastlines. I carefully gild the stones natural indentations - thus returning the precious metals to nature. The first pebbles Trudi collected were from Aldeburgh, Suffolk (where her Father was born incidentally) This was during a holiday with her parents in early May 2019 for my birthday, the second findings were from Cooden Beach, East Sussex, which I visited often (for picnics and skinny dipping!) with my art school friend Melanie Probert. Sadly her beautiful friend Mel passed away of pancreatic cancer in 2015, and so Trudi has decided to dedicate this work to her dear friend and make a donation to Pancreatic Cancer www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk in her memory.
Biography - Bio ⬇️ At last here it is!
Trudi Edmunds was born in Germany to English parents, Ann Edmunds (nee Barker) and Victor Edmunds, with her formative years from age two, spent in beautiful rural English counties Suffolk and Rutland.
Trudi currently has an art studio in Rushbrooke, near her name sake town of Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom.
Naturally artistic from an early age, as her primary school reports can confirm. It is therefore of no surprise that Trudi's favourite subjects at school were art and design, followed by English, Drama and Sports.
Trudi entered into local art competitions and won prizes for her efforts in drawing and painting, she also represented her schools in swimming, diving, sprinting, relay, hockey, netball, rounders and gymnastics. Rode horses in her spare time, winning many rosettes at gymkhanas and horse shows. Trudi also won certificates at Peterborough Drama Festival for prose reading, mono & duologues, solo and group acting.
Not in to competing at sports these days, however Trudi does still enjoy swimming, cycling, walking and watching tennis, anything horse related and also quite likes the odd drama!!
Following her love for art, Trudi studied General Art & Design, a two year foundation course in Ipswich, Suffolk before heading to the UK capital, London to further her art education at the prestigious City & Guilds of London Art School (1992-95) www.cityandguildsoflondonartschool.ac.uk With excellent tuition from the then principal; Sir Roger de Grey KCVO PPRA and his wife Lady Flavia de Grey RA (nee Irwin) Trudi Edmunds graduated with a 2:1 in Decorative Arts, won the Vargas Ayers Design Prize and gained the use of the letters GCGI after her name.
Continuing to live in the capital after graduation, Trudi began working with one of her C&G tutors, Nola Marshall for Herbert Read Ltd - Conservation & Restoration specialists, in Surrey & London, before setting up her own business ‘Millefiore Decorative Arts’ specialising in Verre Eglomise - Creating gilded glass panels for windows, doors and walls. Trudi continued to work in art conservation and restoration, also freelancing at Streeter & Jessel theatrical scenery makers, Vauxhall and working part-time at London Graphic Centre, Covent Garden. Many exhibitions, group and solo shows followed, leading Trudi to work with architects, property developers and private clients in the UK.
Much of Trudi’s personal art work is often formed from found objects, she is interested in the idea of transforming a substance of no intrinsic value into a decorative work, trying to evoke a sense of intimacy and mystery, allowing, to some extent the materials she finds to stimulate her initial response and approach to design, combining her ‘findings’ with polar opposite materials such as gold, silver and other leaf metals. Trudi brings together the discarded and highly regarded in perfect symbiotic harmony, creating one off totally unique, collectible works of objet d’art, objet trouve, drawings, paintings and sculptures.
Trudi is in awe of the natural world, she finds unlimited inspiration, calm and much pleasure in the rural landscape around her. She has a penchant for open water swimming, in rivers, lakes, pebble and sandy beaches, also off road cycling - MTB, walking off the beaten track, through villages, towns and cities... through woods, around fields, down country lanes and footpaths, often gathering ideas for her artwork as she meanders through which ever environment she finder herself in. Sometimes singing a made up and soon forgotten song as she goes... The grass is viridian green - the sky is celeste blue - oh what beaut-iful hue's (that kind of thing).
With a passion for travel Trudi has been lucky enough to explore multicultural cuisine, music, dance, architecture, rural and urban landscapes not only the United Kingdom, but also Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Visiting museums, art galleries and places of historical interest in villages, towns and cities. Trudi’s horizons are broad and varied, through her love of travel, enjoyment of multiculturalism - Trudi also enjoys the company of interesting people from all cultures, countries and walks of life, she has friends and acquaintances all over the world and thoroughly enjoys the cultural difference and conversations having a global network offers. Trudi finds stimulation in lectures and talks of all kinds, particularly those held at Moyses Hall Museum and the Bury St Edmunds Art Society, where she is a member.
Ever the entrepreneur, Trudi, on a trip to India in 2004 began a new business venture ‘Innipooh’ an arts & crafts business, working with Indian artisans helping them to help themselves through trade not aid. Primarily Trudi designed vibrant recycled plastic woven baskets and also often matching, innumerable fashion accessories - shoes, scarves, bags, corsages, hair bands etc, which sold online and at a multitude of art & craft markets - including Portobello Road, London, through various UK retail outlets: Snape Malting's, Southwold Pier, Leaping Hare - Wyken, LoveOne in Ipswich, to name but a few and at the Innipooh Shop in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.
After 14 years Innipooh came to a natural end with Trudi wanting to spend more time at home in England with her family and so the next adventure began...
Having taught arts and crafts as a freelancer in Indian and UK schools, at festival events, several locations in Bury St Edmunds, the Gallery Highwaymans and also Blackthorpe Barn in Suffolk, 2018 saw Trudi open her own Art School in Rushbrooke just outside Bury St Edmunds, where she teaches traditional art practices... see the ‘School of Art’ page for more details.
Trudi is always open to involvement in anything ART related! If you wish to collaborate or have a project and need an Art Consultant then please use the ‘Contact Me’ page to get in touch!
Thank you for reading… My very best wishes, Trudi x