In February I recieved an email inviting me to submit a photograph to an exhibition. Photographers get these all the time, and as many are from commercial operations, I very nearly didn’t give it the time of day. But as one of my images, 43 Gardeners’ Hands, had already been selected, it caught my eye. I read the small print and after a couple of emails with the organizers from Orticola di Lombardia, it turned out to be a genuine and very well planned show entitled ‘Small Garden’ in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano. It is part of an […]
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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
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
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:
Four more portraits from the Land Girls series from autumn 2010 and summer 2011.
I went to a Remembrance Day service this morning. It was a shame that a local resident decided 11am was an appropriate time to start manoeuvring a car next to the memorial. Couldn’t even wait a couple of minutes. It made me think about some of the sites I’d visited over the last 18 months – Thiepval, Fromelles and Delville Wood. Amazing places to see, though very sad.
Two more portraits from the Land Girls series from summer, 2011.