visual artist : observing the everyday
Back in the late 1950's I have a memory of a day trip to Southend. A day at the seaside always exciting but this was a really special trip - Dad had booked a trip in an aeroplane. The three of us in a tiny light aircraft flew around the Southend Airport countryside- with a …
Six Word Saturday bring back the sunshine - now please!
déjà vu moment here as I'm sure I posted a while back my favourite colour was greenish blue/blueish/green as an artist inspired by the landscape it's a range of colours that feature in my work. Black is also a colour that has been a constant in my everyday life, monochrome and minimal imagery, shades of …
Continue reading "1 June Colours and Letters: My Favourite Colour."
Six Word Saturday Challenge
Oh what a tangled web we weave.......
.......you could accidentally get a really interesting shot; you could achieve ambiguous, abstract images.
Time gone by Memory Transience
silent sunday one word sunday: Inversion just for fun I also inverted the purple clematis and it turned green!
LIME A beautiful clematis in my front garden has just started to bloom. It doesn't have much direct sunlight as north facing but I just love it's subtle lime and cream flowers. Alliums just bursting into bloomAnother allium bud just breaking freeThe clematis with it's fabulous cream and tinged with lime green blossoms- love it!
Rust and Decay B&W Challenge
Macro photography can be an inspiration in many ways. The detail unseen by the eye can be revealed and magnified into abstracted shapes and surfaces creating a many layered relief of imagery. An earlier layered oil painting incorporating wire forms and marble dust, carborundum and pigments dusted onto the surface, the wire form partly detached …
What is the fascination with collecting pebbles?
A visit to Tate Liverpool : Marc Chagall July 2013
What does this image say to you?
This walk along the Mere to the Martello Tower has fascinated and inspired me for a long time. The division of sea and mere by a strip of land. At the furthest point a conservation area, access denied to the public by a fence and gate creating a division of a different kind. Silent Sunday
Reflections An amazing installation at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
winter sun MARCH 2 PHOTOADAY CHALLENGE shy and tentative the first glimmer of spring is bathed in the rays of the warm winter sun
Digswell Artists are creating new work in response to Welwyn Garden City's Centenary. The group exhibition will be launched on April 2nd 2020 with a private view at 8pm at The New Maynard Gallery Campus West Welwyn Garden City. The exhibition continues until May 16th. The work I have created relates to my own garden, …
Continue reading "‘In Our Garden’ at New Maynard Gallery Welwyn April 2nd 2020"
a still taken from time lapse video footage April is a busy month for me Today ( April 8th) is the start of The Hertford Arts Trail. My work is exhibited in Hertford House Fore Street Hertford. Where you can view my time lapse videos and stills illustrating the passage of time. The Arts Trail …
time : the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future regarded as a whole (Oxford Dictionary) the measured or measurable period during which an action, process or condition exists or continues (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary) My preoccupation with the concept of time has led me to re examine my practice- viewing previous …
Continue reading "‘time lapse II’. Exhibition at Hertford House"
Still playing with the idea of photo collage for the Art Trail in April. Decided to compile my own collage and play with the individual images before I take the plunge and order a more professional printed collage. Very time consuming capturing these stills from the time lapse but good thinking time too.......... this is …
so many to choose from and this is just up to 2017. Mostly images are from St Ives in Cornwall- my most favourite holiday destination- I would say my most favourite place in the world, but that has to be where my family is- which is Hertfordshire. If I could reside in two places at …
An eventful weekend with Family and friends, film and fun, fine tuning video and photos for Art Trail in April. I have an idea that I'm working on to use the time lapse in several ways to illustrate transience ........this is what I have so far, and still tweaking the video. https://vimeo.com/315185961
Goodbye January photoaday https://citysonnet.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/february-photo-a-day-challenge-2/
playing in the print room Wordless Wednesday
An arhat is one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has achieved nirvana. We are a group of people towards the same goal!!
Travelling is a good way to make your life different as well as fitness and a balanced diet.
ich zeige euch meine stadt wie ich sie sehe
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Where literature and art intersect, with an emphasis on W.G. Sebald and literature with embedded photographs
