Exhibition!

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@wiltshire artspace, Avebury, B&W, exhibition, fine art, fog, Heaven's Gate, Hive Artspace, lone tree, photography, WVAT 2017, Wylye Valley Art Trail

I finally plucked up the courage and participated in my first exhibition!
Representing fine art photography I was part of a group of artists of varied disciplines brought together to launch a new gallery and arts venue, the Hive Artspace in Warminster, taking part in the Wylye Valley Art Trail 2017, a biennial event held in South and West Wiltshire. My brief, in order to sit comfortably with the other exhibits at the venue, was to select images that were local whilst reflecting the natural world – easy to say but fraught with difficulties! After much deliberation I made a selection based on a standard size and format, all mono, similarly toned and linked by the prevailing weather conditions at the time of their capture – i.e. fog!

The way ahead

Lord of the dance

Hedge fund

Secrets

Portal stone

Close encounters

Heaven’s gate

To the point

The cove

Queen’s knight

Druid grove

WVAT 2017 brochure

The response from visitors to seeing well known places through my eyes was incredibly rewarding and came with the added bonus of sharing fond memories and stories of places that had touched their lives. The exhibition was more involved and more successful than ever crossed my mind and, so far, the run down seems to be as busy as the run up!

Other exhibitors were:
Cath Bloomfield – printmaker and mixed media
Freya Brammble-Carter – ceramist
Susan Burrows – textiles
Fiona Campbell – mixed media sculptor
Diana Charnley – painter and printmaker
Dilana Nikolova – illustrator and cartoonist
Anna Shuttlewood – muralist, painter and illustrator
…. and my thanks to them all and The Hive Artspace for a great experience at a well received exhibition!

(All images are copyright to Noeline Smith)

The end of winter

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B&W, calm, crop lines, fine art, fog, lone tree, mono, patterns, photography, telegraph pole

Unless a freak weather front rolls in it seems that winter has come and gone for us in southern England 😦 My favourite photographic season passed in a sequence of ordinary days with barely any frost let alone snow – and not even much rain to speak of! Thankfully we had a few days of hit and miss fog which had me scurrying around my local patch, camera in hand to make the most of limited opportunities.

This tree stands alone in the middle of a field opposite a sewage treatment centre – a rather unprepossessing spot! I’ve wanted to photograph it for years but a jacket of thick ivy obscured its limbs and the resulting dark blob didn’t make for a picture. Trimmed a year or so back, the ivy is thinning and the old oak is finally coming into its own.

The same field held hidden treasure in the form of these tracks not visible from the road – an unintentional artwork!

Another magical morning with not a soul around; when the world is hushed and the moments distilled and concentrated. There’s nothing quite like the luxury of immersing yourself in the simple things in life ….

(All images are copyright to Noeline Smith)