Photography Exhibition

Those of you who know me will know that I teach photography at John Masefield school in evening classes 3 nights a week. This term (which has just finished for the Easter break) we have concentrated on getting pieces ready for the second annual exhibition of students' work. The exhibition ran for a week at the Weavers Gallery in Ledbury until today and was a great success!
These are some of the pieces in situ.

Here's a couple from Jane that she had made into canvas wraps. Jane put some prints in last year so wanted to try something different this year. She's had a fantastic journey on the classes and is now selling some of her work locally!


The pieces below are from JM 6th form student Jess who comes along to my Tuesday group. She saw this project through from a concept she wanted to do with a vintage feel shooting into low evening sun. I think she did an amazing job and is a talent to watch out for in the future!


A little section of the corner of one of the exhibition rooms. I haven't done close-ups of the works but rather just wanted to show some of the pieces as they were in the rooms. Here are some great portraits from Jenne, some shots from Carl's recent Kenya trip (the one of the lady in the middle is amazing) and some lovely early morning train shots from Ralph.


Christine has only joined the Monday group recently protesting of a lack of computer skills. Then she came up with this brilliant pair of pieces printed on to fabric and hand stitched into a quilt and a cushion! Who needs computer skills when you can do that?

And here is another lovely piece from Margaret. She did an autumn leaves canvas last year and this one shows again how Margaret understands and seeks out lovely light for her work. You can't really see Tess's black & white prints in the background but trust me they were fantastic and very powerful.

So that's just a little glimpse of what was on show. If you didn't go come next year! I might get them to collect all the images together and make a Flickr gallery so the exhibition can live on. Will post details of that as and when it happens.

It really was great for me to see all this superb work put together in such a variety of ways. Here's to another exciting term ahead and hopefully another top exhibition next Spring.

Unsung Heroes

I have finally finished my 3 pieces for the exhibition untitled 'Unsung Heroes' which opens at the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford this week. The exhibition is organised by Jeanette McCulloch and features 11 artists, each picking a subject within the Unsung Heroes theme. My work is about people who work to help people in the community who might otherwise get left on the wayside. Pat Jones at Malvern Hills Community College and Sue Davies at Turning Point are the main subjects but my pieces also feature others from these organisations, and of course the people who benefit from their work.
The pieces are collages but below are a couple of pictures that are featured.

This is Sue from Turning Point giving Reiki healing.



And this is the class who learn about numeracy through cooking at Malvern Hills College. led by Carol Major.




Unsung Heroes runs from Friday 6th March until 25th April and is in the upper and lower canyons.
Come along and see it!

Arty Start

Well I've had something of an arty start to the New Year so far.
As well as helping artist Jeanette McCulloch and poet Nick Alexander put together their limited edition book "Excavations of Eternity", I have been photographing works for a catalogue for another artist Dave Cormack. That really sorts out your eye and highlights any flaws in your camera's sensor alignment or your perception of straight edges! I've enjoyed doing that and am pleased with the results (see below).

The school term is under way again too so I've been back at John Masefield helping the 6th form fine art students with their photography and my evening classes start again from next week (19th Jan).
Finally, I've started to put together my work for the exhibition that I'm involved in: Unsung Heroes. This is organised by Jeanette too and features work from 12 very different artists. It's at the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford from 6th March. More info and sneak previews to follow!