The Lords Swimming Pool

Fish enjoying the Lords Swimming Pool, at The Lodge in Potton, near Sandy…we visited the RSPB site in Potton, called "The Lodge", the main building, a stately home type building, had a swimming pool in the gardens, The Lord wanted it for swimming in, the Lady wanted it for ducks, now it is used by these rather lovely fish, and the large one you see here was certainly the Lord of the fish, a big beauty, I have added a very small amount of processing to make it look something like a watercolour or porcelain image, maybe, 

VJ Screenshots from Magiclamp jam session

Magiclamp: live electronica from the UK.

This session was from the first time we've played or jammed together for at least 5 years.

We spent the whole day in the studio getting back into the swing of creating together again. Ostensibly to rehearse for a live gig in November but it's been on the cards for a longtime. The pictures below are just a small number of screenshots from the session. 

you can hear some of the music at 

http://soundcloud.com/magiclamp

Hope you enjoy.

                                  

Spring Equinox 2012_ A Celebration

This work was all photographed on the Spring Equinox of March 2012

and finalised  the same week.  I have always had

an interest in the idea of photography on the Solstice's and Equinox's as

they  are day's concerned with  the measurements of light levels.

The "Blades of Spring" image feels like a cross section of a plant or branch, the green life-force pushing up the middle shooting up to form the new bud, 

pushing the thickness of the branch outwards

calcifying and forming the new stem, twig or branch, reaching for the light.

"Blades of Spring"

"I could be fast like spring"

I am a lover of nature and I'm constantly amazed as I

watch the season unfold around me, the colours changing, scenes reacting

to the light as photo-sensitive paper does to images being exposed on it,

fading, changing, turning in time. Spring has the unique feeling

of catching you off guard, just as you've sunk into deepest winter,

Bam! there it is rushing into the world with a gracious tenancity.

The force of nature, the re-birth, the power of light.

     I hope I have captured some of  nature's energy in these images.

for the full set please visit my website;

www.lukepayn.org.uk

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I have produced a lot of work on the Equinox this year, 

so keep an eye for more material which will be uploaded soon.

Catherine's Delight

Three new pieces of work. 

I have a set of work celebrating the arrival of Spring and the Spring Equinox to publish, and a whole new set of images for the Art in the Heart project at the Tourist Information Centre which are based on Peterborough Cathedral, but before those came out I wanted to share these with you.

The original print size will be over 2 meters wide and over a 1.5 meters high.  

Catherine's Delight #3

Catherine's Delight #2

Catherine's Delight #3

HEROES & VILLAINS of the SKETCHBOOK PROJECT

For those of you who are fans of Bobby Womack, then this is
Just My Imagination, or in the words of Curtis Mayfield,
People Get Ready,

what is life, if not for you?

Exactly Mr. Harrison,  so I present to you the now postal collection of work making it's way to the Brooklyn Art Library-

Sketchbook Project 2012, yes, it's all here mate, 2 and half metres of  winter drawings as the nights get longer and the days shorter, drawing back near Spring now, the Sun ready to rise on the the all-night parties, after-parties and late-night jams, and still we fantasise about the magic and imagination inside the music

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