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Sosban Fach – by Artist Peter Spriggs
Peter Spriggs’ latest exhibition, Sosban Fach, is raw, emotional and a rare example of what, in my humble opinion, is art at its best. In 2017, on a visit to Tate Britain to see the Turner Prize, we happened upon … Continue reading
HPB Theme Week Ballroom Dancers visit GCI Radar Station RAF Ripperston
Thank you everyone for taking time in your busy week to visit us here. What a Treat for a Sunday. Once again our visitors came to see the our WW11 Radar Station, not expecting to see so much wonderful West … Continue reading
A ‘Thank You’ to HPB Members – they make our day special
HPB members are amazing. They simply come for a guided tour of this fine historic WW11 GCI Radar Station and are then treated to an hour long presentation, an emotional poem by Waldo Williams sung by a wonderful Welsh Rugby … Continue reading
A busy Week at RAF Ripperston
We always enjoy everything we do at the Set House and in the admin buildings of former GCI Radar Station, RAF Ripperston, especially mending leaky roofs We NEARLY always enjoy everything we do at former GCI Radar Station, RAF Ripperston, … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Photography, Heritage, Museum, WW2 History
Tagged #hpbmoments, art*, life, photography, WWII History
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RAF Ripperston welcomes Baby Bondholder
Baby Betty Visits the Set House at RAF Ripperston We had the most beautiful young visitor to our Guided Tour last week. Five week old Betty. And she didn’t make even a hint of a squeak right through John’s Presentation … Continue reading
What a Wonderful Day
Yesterday I posted an image of Joe Frowen’s ‘Stargate Astronauts’ Yesterday I had three ‘Stargate Astronauts’ to gaze at with admiration Today I have only two ‘Stargate Astronauts’ remaining here with me. Ah! One of them has gone ‘stargazing’, bought … Continue reading
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Joe Frowen’s Ceramic Art
Space Cowboys & Stargate to the Past Trilogy I’m testing the appearance of my image for automatically posting to Facebook and what better way to do this than to focus on some exciting and unique ceramic art by Joe … Continue reading
Reporting in from ‘RAF Ripperston’
THE SECTOR CLOCK This is our first ‘dispatch’ from former GCI Radar Station, RAF Ripperston. (and with John in charge, these reports may become a little more frequent than my posts when it was just Jane’s Blog. You have been … Continue reading
Posted in A Blog, Art & Photography, Heritage, image, Museum, Techy Bits, Uncategorized, WW2 History
Tagged Facts, Heritage, History, WWII Radar
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MY ONCE YEARLY POST ! HA!
As you will see from my website, I have had little or no time over the past year to share my endeavours update my BLOG. I have also had no time at all for my own art; however, I have … Continue reading
And then there was Braque!
This has been some year. I can only say that the images of the paintings by Sigrid Müller in my last post are just so amazingly beautiful that they have obviously kept all of my ‘blog’ followers ‘following’ for the last … Continue reading
Perfectly Perfect
A new beginning and a wonderful new addition to my ever expanding list of ‘ARTISTS WHO INSPIRE ME’ We have had a perfectly perfect week. I am now starting to believe that John and I can relax and enjoy the … Continue reading
WWII Secret Project Revealed
For those of you who have born with me and my terrible track record as a blogger, (not even including my lack of replies to readers – I have tried but know I have failed horribly), hopefully you may find … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Photography, Art Gallery, Post includes Image, Studios
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Take a Breath and Catch-up
First & foremost I should like to thank everyone who saw my exhibition at Oriel Q and was kind enough to tell the curator, Lynne, their thoughts and/or write in the comments book. The feedback has been wonderful and I … Continue reading
Posted in An Exhibition, Ancient Woodlands, Art & Photography, Art Speak, Atmosphere, Degree Module Work, Fine Art, Lawrenny, Post includes Image, Submerged Forest, Uncategorized
Tagged art*, Confidence, Creative, Fate, garden, Good Fortune, image, love, Mystical, Myth, photography, printmaking, Thanks
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Time Lapse Video of a typical shoot
Just to finish off chatting about my ‘oh, so precious’ project – as if you hadn’t already seen enough or guessed how ‘precious’ I am about it – I thought I’d show you the one and only timelapse I have … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Photography, Degree Module Work, Fine Art, Submerged Forest, Video
Tagged art*, Borth, photography, storm, Submerged Forest, Ynyslas
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Fate plays a hand – storms of the like not seen for many years.
Following my escapades in the ancient Lawrenny Woodlands I had a year to go before my Final Degree Show Module and had no plans to visit the Submerged Forest until then. However, fate played a hand and, following the horrendous … Continue reading
Posted in An Exhibition, Ancient Woodlands, Post includes Image, Submerged Forest
Tagged Borth, image, storm, Submerged Forest, Ynyslas
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Artistic Message – Thresholds & Thin Places
So far, with regard to the path I took in the creation of my upcoming exhibition, I have been concentrating on the technical aspect of the photography. This is a long blog post but I would really like the chance to … Continue reading
Time runs out but I have have a moment of discovery.
Following the previous shoot in the early Autumn of my ACP1 Module, the lead in to ACP2 which would be my finals, I knew that somehow The Submerged Forest would be the subject of my Degree Show. It had become … Continue reading
Degree Show Exhibition – cont.
Ok, so there weren’t the flocks of seagulls that I had been hoping to find on a ‘Distant Shore’ for my Degree Show idea but I was loving the ‘day to night’ photography I was practicing on the Submerged Forest stumps, so … Continue reading
Posted in An Exhibition, Art & Photography, Art Speak, Atmosphere, Degree Module Work, Fine Art, image, Post includes Image, Submerged Forest, Techy Bits
Tagged exhibition, Fine Art, gallery, love, Nikon, OrielQ, Pembrokeshire, photo, photographer, Photography Degree, standing stones, student, Submerged Forest
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Degree Show Exhibition – where it all started – two years before
‘Spirit of Ynyslas’ was my Degree Show Exhibition. Is there ever a right time to be thinking about your Degree Show; I think most students start to think about it at the end of their first year when they see … Continue reading
Myth or Manipulation
Many of you looking at these images might wonder if they are petrified trees; trees that have been turned to stone through the process of ‘permineralization’ . Certainly the technician at Metro Imaging in London, who did an absolutely brilliant … Continue reading
