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Inspire Gifts and Gallery

10/9/2018

I'm not very good at blogging!
I never got round to posting about our joint exhibition at Inspire - a wonderful gift shop and gallery on New Street in Lancaster! However the other 2 pictures are more topical: they are currently on display in the window - to tie in with Lancaster's Festa Italia.

Other People's Art

1/2/2018

Click here to view the exhibition gallery

It's about 4 years since I realised that I had quite a collection of manipulated photographs of sculptures - so I submitted the idea for an exhibition to a gallery not a million miles from where we now live. Alas it was turned down (though later I was invited to be involved in a group exhibition at the same venue - this prompted me to take (and manipulate) more sculpture images!

The pictures in this exhibition date from the 1990s (Hang on Mum is the oldest and originated on slide film! The most recent is Seahorses featuring Eric Gill's iconic sculpture from the Midland Hotel, Morecambe.

Some of the images were simple and easy to shoot - but Speed involved numerous visits to Liverpool to take the image when the light was right. Hang on Mum had been planned over 12 months in advance, waiting for the right lighting conditions on a Sunday. It was shot from stepladders with Lin out of shot guarding the teddy bear (yes, it was in the picture when I shot it - it's not a digital addition!

It wasn't until I was reviewing images that I'd taken of The Dream that I realised the cloud formation looked like a "thought bubble" - unfortunately I didn't have a photograph of the pit head gear that used to stand on this site, so I used one from Ashington, Northumberland.

Whilst our younger daughter lived in Lincoln, I had walked past Empowerment many times, but the sun never caught it at the right angle (or wasn't shining at all). It wasn't until judging at a local camera club where someone had entered a picture with the sun really emphasising the lines on the lower figure that I realised I'd just never walked past at the right time! I took it at an angle so as not to include nearby buildings - and presented it with the statues at the angle they really are (more or less).

It's all about the Bay

25/11/2017

Delighted to have been invited to have first joint exhibition with Lin - on now - we hung 22 pictures yesterday morning. Copies of mine can be seen on the Morecambe Bay galley page. To see examples of lin's work, visit her By the Bay Facebook page.

Images at exhibitions in and around Morecambe, October 2017

6/10/2017

It's not often that I have so many images displayed in different exhibitions - click on the thumbnails to find out which location is displaying which picture. The four locations are:

Morecambe Camera Club Exhibition, Morecambe Library;
The Golden Teapot, Regent Road - part of West End Art Trail;
Overton Open, Edge Gallery, The Ship, Overton;
Art Against Fracking, The Whale Tail, Lancaster.

Graham's Gallery will be having a stall at this event:

14/3/2017

Prom, Prom Prom ... and more

2/10/2016

Johnny , Simon & I have joined together again to give these photographs another outing - but as the exhibition space is larger than the Dukes, we have added some new/different image. Sadly this could well be the last exhibition in this venue, as it is due to cloe at the end of 2016.

The last 6 months ...

5/10/2015

Three new walks...

... work in two group exhibitions ...

... and prints in one new shop.

I must make more effort to keep this blog up to date!!!

Exhibition in Darwen Library

12/12/2014

The exhibition runs until Christmas. Follow this link for opening times: h ttp://www.blackburn.gov.uk/Pages/Darwen-library.aspx?CurrentTermId=406579d7-f812-455c-a3e0-8daf1622ca8a

Fruits of the Lune

7/10/2014

I've just delivered a selection of prints to this new enterprise at 24 King Street, Lancaster, opening this coming Saturday (11th October). It will be stocking an interesting mix of paintings, prints, jewellery, ceramics and glassware - all produced by artists and craft workers in or near the Lune Valley.
Fruits of the Lune Facebook page
Fruits of the Lune website

Ribble Valley Art Studios - Open Exhibition

13/9/2014

These 2 prints have been accepted for exhibition at RVA,Clitheroe. Open Wednesdays and Saturdaysuntil early Opctober.