Friday 30 June - 2

Heteroperspective 2

Axbridge, nestling at the foot of the Mendip Hills, is often described as being "picturesque". The town square, with its mix of half-timbered buildings, Georgian facades and overlooked by the prominent church, epitomises our ideal of a rural English settlement.

The works in Heteroperspective II are studies of rooftops of Axbridge houses. Rather than trying to show the scope of the town, they instead attempt to convey some sense of the experience of "being here". They focus on details that [...]

Thursday 29 June - 2

Heteroperspective 1

In Heteroperspective 1, Ngaio Macfarlane makes detailed studies of wildlife creatures taken out of their natural environment and presented mostly against a plain blue ground. This device pointedly reminds us that the creatures' environment is critical to their survival.

Alone and unsupported on the canvas, with the deep blue of infinity beyond, the creatures display a commanding and challenging presence which not only creates a deeply striking image but at the same time, forcefully reminds [...]

Tuesday 15 May - 1

Impressions

In this strand of our work we continue to explore ways of creating images with a "painterly" quality, this time we take the images a long way from the usual conception of that which constitutes a photograph. For the purposes of this exhibition, we are quite forgiving of how we get an image, as long as we get an image that floats our boat.

It has been observed that a photograph can contain too much detail. The trappings of modern life can intrude upon a scene; electricity pylons marching across [...]

Thursday 29 June - 1

Abstractions

In this strand of our work we are interested in creating images of a "painterly" quality, removed some distance from the usual conceptions of that which constitutes a photograph.

We are using a combination of modern digital technology and classic lensless imaging to create multi-layered images in which the structure and form of the subject is reduced to an abstraction, conveying the mere miniumum of information required to establish a context for the viewing.

Our intention is to suppress the [...]