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I held my second exhibition from 8 – 14th December, 2010 at the Gardens Gallery, Montpillier, Cheltenham in England. 
The Gardens Gallery is a great venue – plenty of space and well lit. Exhibiting at this time of year in England is not the greatest time – it was cold but generally dry. We had a total of just on 200 visitors. Christmas sales helped me to break even but this is no easy way to make a living!
It was with some trepidation that I attended the Royal Photographic Society Associateship Assessment Day on 13 October 2010 at the Society’s headquarters in Bath, England. I had entered the required panel of 15 images in the Visual Art category. My panel comprised images from a series I have been working on over the past couple of months – English Cathedrals. After a very interesting look at some awesome presentations by other photographers, of which slightly less than half were awarded the distinction of Associateship, I am pleased to say that my panel was successful and I am now an Associate Member of the Society.
The cathedrals of England hold a tension, an irony, being at once places of devotion and contemplation as well as representing wealth and power from a past era. The tension runs right through most elements – a warmth and a coldness, the familiar with the alien, minute detail overshadowed by vast lines and cavernous spaces. My purpose in these images is to explore these tensions. The images represent a small selection from a project to photograph all 43 Anglican cathedrals in England, seeking not to create an architectural record but to capture unique perspectives to be reflected upon over time and which are not initially obvious. All the images have been taken in available light and generally without the presence of people, concentrating on the creation of art out of art – creativity out of the creativity of past eras.
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Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England is the Mother Church of the world-wide Anglican Communion and seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Cathedral, dating back to 597, is both a holy place and part of a World Heritage Site. It is the home of a community of people who seek to make the Cathedral a place of welcome, beauty and holiness. Visit the Cathedral web site for further information on the history and current activities of the Cathedral. Continue reading “Featuring Cathedrals 2: Canterbury Cathedral”
This post is the first in a series on Cathedrals and churches in the United Kingdom. In cities, towns and villages all over Britain you will find beautiful old buildings which are often somewhat sad and sombre relics of a vanished era of faith, power and excess. They are largely forgotten now, in many instances surrounded by the gravestones of a larger departed congregation than the living faithful and yet they represent a vast heritage of art, architecture and history which is there to be explored and perhaps rediscovered. I have begun a personal exercise of photographing churches and cathedrals in the United Kingdom and have been struck by their wealth. Most have been built over centuries and all are full of drama. Most hold their ages within them and speak of bygone eras but some seem very modern even though they were constructed centuries ago. Continue reading “Featuring Cathedrals 1: Wells Cathedral”