Author: Helen Chapman

Pauline Godwin’s Love affair with photography started three years ago when her husband, who is an avid photographer, bought a cheap Canon DSLR so that they could enjoy taking photographs together. Pauline has learned so much and now sees the world from a very different perspective. The camera club that her husband was a member of is now run by Pauline and her husband.

Pauline’s ‘Bluebells In The Mist’ image was recently highly commended in the 2019 British Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards and was exhibited at the Mall Galleries plus published in a book.

Printed photographs are where the beauty of the medium really shines. To create something tangible from the ethereal, to produce a score made of light and shadow, as music, as wind through tall grasses, as water searching across pebbles for a home. I strive to marry the visual with the ethereal, to create emotive responses, insightful and evocative in their realisation. The viewer will decide ultimately for themselves. I welcome the dialogue!

For more information please visit www.garyheiss.co.uk or @garyheiss on Instagram.

Catrina Jade is a welsh photographer, waiting to graduate a BA hons degree in photography at the university of central Lancashire (Uclan). Catrina focused on fine art and fashion, with major interests in editorial and experimental work. Catrina’s photographs have occult and often a meaning and symbology that isn’t obvious at first glance. Each of her photographs spreads gaze upon issues within today’s society or certain individuals characteristics which intrigue her. Bringing elements of pre-raphelite art into modern day styles of post-production and digital processes, Catrina searches for a secret glimpse into the world we live in only visible through a collection of moments, places, times and people.

Stuart Lawrence lives in Portchester on the south coast of England. This is a beautiful area which provides a lot of inspiration for Stuart being very near lovely sea and landscape locations. As well as that, Stuart loves to photograph animals, particularly big cats and he doesn’t mind the occasional unplanned photo session with people too. When the mood takes him, Stuart is liable to produce some more abstract and minimalist images too, utilising digital tools such as Photoshop. So, depending on what catches his eye or tickles his fancy, you may end up seeing anything!

Alma Leaper has a background in Graphic Design; Advertising and is a Teacher of Photography and Fine Art.

Alma is currently working as an in-house Photographer and Lead Photographer of Photography Workshops at The Big Cat Sanctuary, Kent.

For more information, please visit
www.almaleaper.co.uk/about-1/

Six years ago, Jo Knight didn’t even own a pocket camera let alone have any knowledge of, or interest in, photography. However, Jo had adopted a little dog and wanted to take some snaps of her mutt so she went on Ebay and bought a third hand Olympus DSLR. It changed her life, despite the fact she couldn’t afford any lenses and the manual might as well have been written in Chinese.

Jo lives on the edge of the Lake District which is surrounded by fantastic wildlife and trying to capture that then became a time stealing passion. While spending hours stalking birds and animals is fabulous in summer it’s less fun in freezing Cumbrian winters, so to avoid hypothermia Jo decided to turn her tiny spare bedroom into a make-shift studio and tried her hand at portraiture.

Hary Fuller is a self-taught photographer, currently based in the US.

Hary started by capturing flowers at home with an analog camera. Gradually, through traveling, she has developed series of photographs using digital cameras. Ultimately she has consolidated her purpose in photography: to trigger a smile, a dream, your curiosity.

For more information, please visit: https://ceepixpic.com/ or email: ceepixpichf@gmail.com

Peter Fieldhouse has had a keen interest in photography for decades, with a natural eye for composition and interesting subject matter. It is something Peter has long enjoyed and he always has his camera to hand when out and about. In fact his camera, together with his cycle, have found lots of adventure some of which has been completely random and spontaneous whilst others have been planned. Peter just knows he would be lost and feel naked without his camera to hand.

At the start of 2019, Peter realised that he wanted to add to new niches to his decades old portfolio of sunsets, sunrises, people, places, family, urban architecture, industrial heritage and flowers. At the same time Peter wanted to move away from an amateur-enthusiast status and use his creative talents and imagination to move ideas from Pinterest and other photographers into a reality based on his own increased technical competence. In short, Peter no longer wanted his photography to be a hobby consisting of above average shots capturing the ‘moment’ by chance, with luck and without intention or direction.

Judy Hicks took up photography as a serious hobby in 2000, when she and David had the good fortune to spend a period of time overseas.

While she continues to enjoy travel, documentary and street/urban photography, Judy has recently branched out into a more contemporary style. She loves colour as you can see from these images, one of which represents her urban photography, the others were taken on a trip to Rotterdam last year.

David transferred from a brownie box camera to 35mm Kodachrome slides at University and has been intermittently taking photographs ever since. Since acquiring his first digital camera just under a decade ago, photography has become a serious leisure activity and he now both plans and seeks out opportunities to capture creative images.

Paul Furner is a keen wildlife and nature photographer. Several of the images you will see on display were shot just last month on an amazing trip to Svalbard – deep in the Arctic Circle, just 500 miles from the North Pole.

For more information, please visit:

www.instagram.com/paulfurnerphotography