I bought an inexpensive bouquet of flowers at the supermarket several days ago. The buds have opened up and blossomed beautifully, to the point of insisting I photograph them.
Still Life
Tag: still life
Water Shadow
After the Courtauld we sat in the Somerset House courtyard for a while, enjoying the sun and some sparkling water, shown here, casting interesting shadows.
Hepworth
We went to see Hepworth in Colour a couple of weeks ago at the Courtauld Gallery. I was not truly familiar with her work but these were stunning pieces, abstractly illustrating many of the principles of composition and design that I have been discussing with my u3a photography group. Highly recommended if you’re in or near London. When we were finished we emerged into the Courtauld’s permanent collection and a seriously sumptuous collection of some marvelous and familiar Impressionist works.
More Light and Shade
A couple more images for my collection of sunlight and shade.
Deadhead
…possible addition to the Looking Down project…?
Cowboy
Jann Haworth [b. 1942]Cowboy1964Kapok and unbleached calicoWilson Gift through Art Fund (2006)
“The American cowboy is an enduring motif in “Hollywood films, which has in recent years been reconsidered through a more contemporary lens, raising issues of gender, identity and social history. Jann Haworth recalls seeing her first rodeo in 1956 and, for her, the rodeo cowboy is a 'fossil of the imperfect/perfect Great American Myth! Cowboy is one of her earliest soft-sculpture figures, depicting a macho subject in a material commonly perceived as feminine.
Harvey’s Glasses
Repetition
Glasses
Yet another early morning, half-blind, still life. Without my glasses on, this appeared, bleary-eyed and interesting, supporting my jumping out of bed to grab my camera from another room and attach a macro lens to it. While the post is titled “glasses,” both my glasses and the bottle behind are, in fact, made of plastics.
Shielding
Chairs
More work playing with the macro lens and the sunlight on and through plastic furniture.
Artists’ Tools
It wasn’t just paints and brushes. Some artists pile their paints and brushes somewhat haphazardly, others keep their work tools in serried ranks.
Painters’ Studios
Throughout May we progressed through Brighton and Hove’s Artists Open Houses and I photographed their paints, palettes and brushes.
Hove Flowers
Walking from one Artist Open House to the next in Hove we passed lots of front garden flowers (gladiolus above, purple Jerusalem sage below).
Growth Chart
An amusing gloss on the artists’ own height chart in the next doorway at Studio 28a on our Hove Artists Open Houses tour last month.
Artists’ Tools
One of the pleasures of touring Brighton’s Artists Open Houses each May is seeing the artists’ tools, paints, and brushes and other craft paraphernalia. At Lara Bowen’s studio we saw a set of colour swatches she created in the depths of lockdown, capturing (and labeling) the emotions of those times.
Nature and Art
Another weekend another Artists Open Houses neighborhood to explore, this time in Fiveways.
Inkpots
To reach Eunju Lee, a South Korean female luthier (last post), we walked through Inkspot Press and saw the screen, relief, letterpress and etching presses, and other paraphernalia.
Still Life
May was the month of the Artists Open Houses in Brighton and Hove and we spent our weekends visiting lots of them – too many to remember where each picture was taken. But here’s a table in one of the houses, laid out interestingly enough that I thought it might make a picture.
Farnham Flowers
Spent a weekend at the beginning of May in Farnham, where I lived from Autumn 2022 – 2024 and couldn’t help noticing the beautiful flowers the town is famous for.