Sorry its been so long

Hi

Sorry its been so long since I posted last but time seems to have disapeared so fast this year. Having done a couple of joint exhibitions, an open studio event and covered some varied events including BMF Tail end which was great as was CLA Game Fair.


I have purchased equipment for "on site" printing so people can buy the mounted prints on the day so will be covering Proms and Black tie events as well as Equestrian Shows. My daughter staffed the printer and did the sales for me at our first proper event which was showjumping at Forest Edge Equestrian Centre in Norfolk. She did great so a big thanks to her.


Oh nearly forgot we have also had the launch of the charity calendar I shot and the local paper gave us the front cover and page 3 (approropraite I guess given the subject matter lol )


I promise ( yes I know I have promised before) to regularly update this blog so bear with me.

Here are a couple of the images from the calendar which are on sale now

Music and Dance Wisbech

Wisbech is holding a Music and dance festival tomorrow and sunday where Fenvac has an art exhibition in support of their event. Marian, Heather and myself have spent today setting up the display boards and hanging the work. We will be staffing the exhibition for the two days and I will be photographing the event for the council.

Here are some of the images I have hanging, some of which are "straight" and some altered in photoshop.

A number of the instruments I photographed are very old and are part of the Chatteris Museum Collection so thanks to them for the loan.

I have included a number of ballet shoe shots in the exhibition and a thanks to Lou for getting them for me

This final image is not in the exhibition but was uploaded by mistake and has nothing to do with music and dance but as I dont Know how to remove it I will leave it here lol

Journeys Exhibition

The joint exhibition I am holding with Marian entitled "Journeys" is currently running at March Library. Thanks to all of you who attended the " meet the artist" evening on tuesday. Some of you who live further afield have ask that I post some of the other images on which I have added some of my prose. This is something I have been thinking of doing for a while and after seeing the photographic work done by by niece Holly for her coursework I decided to do my own version and this exhibition seemed the ideal time to do it. Thanks to all of you who have been touched in some way by my words.

Holly was with me when I took some of the images and it was great to hear her critique of my work.

The images here were taken as far afield as Neath, Mumbles, Tenby,and Fenland.

I do hope you enjoy the images and the words, some images were inspired by the words and some words were inspired by the images

Journeys

Monday sees the start of my next joint exhibition entitled "Journeys" with Marian. This exhibition is representative of my journey through life with a first for me, this is the addition of some prose to some of my images. I have written some prose for years and untill now I havent felt happy to add them to the images. The "preview" or "meet the artist" evening is Tuesday from 6:30-8:30. Everyone is welcome at March library for this evening and the exhibition will run for two weeks.

Music and Dance Exhibition

I have been working on some images for an exhibtion with the theme of music and dance. This will be a Fenvac exhibition supporting Wisbech Councils Music and dance Festival on 1st and 2nd August. I havnt finally decided which images to use but here are two on my shortlist

The first is a ballet shoe that has the ribbons being blown by a fan, and the second is an American made banjo with has has a liquify effect and a few other things done to it.

Hope you enjoy the images

Busy Time

Its been a busy few weeks with the finishing of my joint exhibition with Marian and then this last weekend Fenvac has put on an exhibition of its members work. This was part of the towns Medieval Festival. Five of us put on workshops with Marian and Kath doing one on Art Journaling and mine being on Portrait Photography. With this over I have to get busy on my next exhibition with Marian entitled "Journeys" and overlapping that we are putting an exhibition of art based on music and dance as part of a nearby towns festival. Also managed to visit a reclamation yard to take some photos, a few of which I have posted here.

I love to see "found shapes" and photograph them and reclamation yards although at first glance look like things have just been dumped it is when you look closely you can see a sort of oder and lovely shapes and textures as well as interesting signs. Hope you enjoy the images

Twenty Five Yards

A couple of different pics to the ones I usually post and they were taken on the morning of Race for Life. The title refers to how far I had to walk from one picture to the next, I like the contrasts between the lovely river scene and the empty bottles left by some street life people. It also shows that we have to be always on the look out for images that appeal to us and often dont have to go far to get totally different shots. I find that if I go out with only certain shots I want in mind then I can easily miss what else is around. Its always best to have an open mind about what you will photograph but thats often easier said than done.

Anyway hope you enjoy the images.

Race For Life Cambridge

I was photographing RACE FOR LIFE in Cambridge today and seeing my daughter Sarah run in it for the first time made me so proud. Well done Sarah and the over 3,500 women and girls that took part.

Meet the Artists Evening

Hi All

A big thanks to all those that attended the meet the artist evening for my joint exhibition with Marian at March Library last night. Thanks too to Ellie for making the badges that we gave away to visitors. Here are a couple of pictures from the evening. With more exhibitions comming up I am back in the studio working on new images.

Exhibition starts tomorrow

Well its that time again. The next in the series of joint exhibitions starts tommorrow with a "meet the artists" evening on tuesday. I have a number of pieces not seen before so hope they are appreciated, the theme is "Fathers Day" with the aim this time of the work appealing to men, whether fathers, or grandfathers or even great grandfathers!!! It seems much harder to work on pieces that are suitable for men and am not sure why?, maybe its because generally the women decide on the decor in the home. If anyone wants to let me know why its more difficult then I would love to hear, in the mean time here are two of the new images that will be in the exhibition.

Shoes and bags

Today saw the sun shining and it felt the hotest day of the year so far. I had picked up some new shoes and a bag from Shoe Biz yesterday so spent part of today in the cool of my studio. Having four shoots this comming week I wanted to continue with the project today so that I can get the shoes back when the shop reopens on tuesday. Hope you like these two of the many I shot.

Gerorge Clare Surgery Chatteris

Tuesday saw myself with two members of Fenvac at the George Clare Surgery in Chatteris to meet with Barbara Green the Practice Manager to get a publicity photo for the local press. The partners through Barbara have kindly invited Fenvac members to hang art work throughout the building giving us the opportunity to reach a wider audience with our art. Four member currently have work displayed, Marian, Heather, Richard and myself. The work will change on a regular basis so all members will have an opportunity to show their work.

Here is a picture of Heather Barbara and Marian.

Yesterday saw six Fenvac members at RAF Wyton at a special day where we were able to show the art we produce and to chat with staff from the base. It was a great day with lots of interest shown in our work. A big thanks for their invite and hospitality

BMF

Hi, I was at the BMF event over the weekend which is always great fun and brings motorcyclists from all over the world to what is probably one of the biggest events of its kind in Europe. This image is from a series done on The Purple Helmets a fun display team who entertained us all. Also there was a local carting club from Wisbech who also helped raise money for Eddie Kidd the stunt roder who broke his neck some time ago. Some of the images have gone to the Motorcycle News for a spread in this weeks publication and hopefully Fenland Citizen will also do a spread on their local club.

Cavell Centre

The Cavell Centre is based in Peterborough and is for people with mental health difficulties. Having been approached by a representative from Arts & Minds, Marian, Ric and myself were invited to submit work to be displayed in this new centre. After a selection procedure all three of us had work accepted. This one one of my images that was selected and will soon be displayed for up to a year.

Its always nice to have worked judged by a panel of people and know that the work, as well as being decorative will be used by the staff to elicite memories and feelings from those being treated at the centre.

Shoes, bags and BBQ

I have been asked to post some more images from my recent shoes and bags shoot so here are three more which are quite different from the others I have shown. With the "wedding season" well and truelly underway I thought these would be appropriate.

Recently I have found bags much harder to shoot for some reason so I tried to put more time into it and am pleased with these results.

Yesterday saw me showing the final images for the calendar to all those that took part. I am pleased that everyone really liked their picture. The calendar will run for 18 months so trying to please 18 people was a bit nerve racking. Ric and Kath at the Honest John who chose me to do the images put on a lovely BBQ for all the people involved and their families. Thanks to them for a lovely evening,

Art Day and Wales

Hope you all enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK. I am at Truckfest on sunday and monday and sunday evening I am photographing the group shot for the charity calendar (this time they will be all clothed) Spent some time in Wales the other week and had a great time going out with my niece for a days photography at Mumbles, I have also hosted an art day at my studio this previous sunday and took some shots of open toed boots. Here are two shots from Mumbles and two of the boots. Hope you like them.

Naughty boy

Hi all I have been very naughty by not updating this for so long. So much has happened over the last month or so that it would be silly to try and catch up so will just post some pictures from my ongoing shoe and bag project. These were taken yesterday and thanks to "shoe biz " for the loan of the shoes.

I do promise at least one post a week from now on

Charity Calendar

Wow what a busy few weeks it has been. The Mothers day exhibition will finish this saturday and the next planned one is for Fathers day.

The charity calendar is going well and by the middle of next week I will have shot all 18 of the people taking part!. They have all been great and happy to try poses that I have suggested as well as suggesting their own. The props that they have brought to cover the "vital bits" have been equally varied from a piece of turf cut in a heart shape (can you guess what month that will be?) to Horus the Egyptian god to an ironing board and just about everything inbetween.

I have had my first batch of postcards printed to promote my wedding business and have decided to do a promotion on my pet portraits to give 10% of orders from my dog portraits to the local "pat dogs" organsation The picture of rosie in the daffodils will be the front of that card.

I am also continuing my longterm shoe project and here is one of my latest shots

Hope you enjoy both pictures

'Cos Mums are Special

This is the poster for my forthcoming joint exhibition with Marian.

Exhibition

Hello again



First can I say "hope you get well soon" to Marian who has snapped an achillies tendon playing badminton last evening. We have a joint exhibition leading up to Mothering Sunday which starts with a preview evening this comming Friday from 5pm-7pm at Chatteris Library. All are welcome





I have agin done some mixed media acrylics to compliment my photographs mainly involving shoes and handbags which you all know is one of my ongoing projects. I hope you enjoy the images posted which will be in the exhibition.