Earlier in the week I had the opportunity to spend a day wondering around Milan after attending the ‘Small Garden’ exhibition at Galleria D’arte Moderna di Milano. Left: Hotel Brasil Right: Parco Sempione Milan, Creperia Vecchiabrera Left: Bed, Parco Sempione Right: Louis Vuitton shop, Montenapoleone Fuel station, Via Marina Left: Montenapoleone, Milan Right: Disused restaurant Hotel Brasil Traffic lights, Via Bellotti
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Some test shots from this afternoon, possibly for later use in gravure printing. Left: Viburnum Right: cherry Left: Bay Right: Forget me nots
I can’t exactly remember when I first came across polymer gravure printing. It is a modern variant of the copperplate gravure process that the photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen used to great effect in the early 20th century. Maybe it was the book of Mr Coburn’s work I was given whilst at college. All I know is that it has been driving me nuts for at least two years, as several attempts haven’t got me very far. Two weeks ago I attended a three day course at Rabley Drawing Gallery in Marlborough, run by printer Martyn Grimmer with […]
Left: Bay of Pigs. Right: Bay of Pigs Museum Left: Bay of Pigs. Right: Bay of Pigs Bay of Pigs Left: Organic smallholding, Viñales. Right: Lagoon, Trinidad Left: Che Guevara memorial, Santa Clara. Right: Mural, Havana Left: Havana. Right: Viñales Hotel chalet, Soroa Left: Havana. Right: Havana
Left: Apartment Havana. Right: Room, Viñales Havana Room, Viñales Apartment, Havana Left: Balcony, Trindad. Right: Flag, Trinidad Apartment, Havana Left: Baseball stadium, Viñales. Right: Che Guevara Memorial Viñales Left: Trinidad. Right: Havana Bedroom, Viñales Left: Pet, Viñales. Right: Botanical garden, Cienfuegos Garden Shrine for San Lazoro, Viñales. Left: Bay of Pigs museum. Right: Museum, Trinidad Bay of Pigs Bay of Pigs
In December 2008 I started a project which evolved into set of images called 43 Gardeners’ Hands. This was exhibited at Kew through the summer of 2009. Four more photographs were taken just after the exhibition deadline, and as a result were never exhibited. So, clockwise from top left: Dan Hinckley, Tim Richardson, Rosemary Alexander and Will Giles.
The Urban Forest, from the Welcome to Heaven series.
A new portrait in the Land Girls series.
Some more images from the Coast of Light series, Andalucia. All images Cadiz, except lower left, which is Tarifa Harbour looking towards North Africa.
Some recent sketch ideas from a walk I regularly take: