Well, that’s that then. Game over. Finito.
I landed back in Glasgow last monday with a lot less of a bump than when reality came crashing back in sometime mid-week. It’s hard to describe how life feels when you get home after a long trip. It’s a little like everything’s the same but different. Glasgow’s not changed much since I left (almost two years ago given my time in Kendal before heading for Patagonia). Then again, a lot of friends have left, and a lot of familiar haunts have gone too.
The trip itself seems different in my mind than it did two weeks ago too. It was still real then, by the very fact that I was still on it. Now if it wasn’t for a hard drive full to bursting with photos I’m not sure I’d be convinced that it wasn’t all just a very long, rather strange dream. Thankfully, not only not only have I still got that drive full of photos I’ve also got the exhibition to work on for the next couple of weeks, easing the pain a little and softening the impact as Life tries to sneak up and shanghai me once more. After much indecision, processing and reprocessing I finally dropped off the final selection of prints at the framers this afternoon.
With that all in hand for the moment, I thought I’d take the chance to let you know what the script is for the exhibition over the next few weeks. A lot of you know what it’s all about already, but bear with me as we seem to have picked up a few more folks along the way since the blog started back in November!
The exhibition is not just my work, it’s a joint show that I’m part of along with Jaime Medina Jimenez, a painter from Chile. The concept that we’re working around is that I’ve travelled from the Lake District in Cumbria to photograph the area he grew up painting. Jaime in turn has spent some time in Cumbria painting the area I normally photograph. Everything on display will be new work produced specifically for this show. I’ve not seen what Jaime’s produced for the exhibition as yet, but have seen some of his other work. He has a wonderful style and a great talent for capturing the atmosphere of a place and I’m really looking forward to seeing him unveil his Cumbrian paintings on opening night.
Which is what this post is all about: we’re having a small opening event at 19:30 on the 19th of May in the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick. I’ve been quite astonished at the level of interest in the blog since I started it, so thanks folks. It’d be great if some of you guys could make it along to see what I’ve been rambling on about in person. Entry is free, so just turn up. It’s also woth pointing out again that the exhibition is being run as part of the Keswick Mountain Festival and that there’s a whole lot of great events in and around Keswick between the 19th nad 23rd of May.
With respect to the photographs themselves, in the end I’ve decided to produce only a limited edition run of 120 of each of the images that will be shown. Each print is numbered, signed and produced by myself using the best pigment based inks on acid free 100% cotton rag fine art paper. The first print of each of the images will be available at the Theatre by the Lake exhibition.
Now that they are all at the framers and out of my hands for the next week, I guess that I’ve got some time to sit back and think about life, the trip and what to do next. Thankfully, there’s also the Scottish Highlands to re-familiarise myself with! I’ve not checked everywhere just yet, but so far I still don’t think there’s anywhere more beautiful in the world than what we’ve got on our doorstep. Perhaps a wee trip north is in order…. Fancy hanging around for the ride?
the Falloch last weekend
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