Curious Impressions
From unique visions to captivating transformations and child-like imaginations, indulge in these captivating works of art that will surely inspire the creative mind.
BEACH HUTS – HILARY STOCK
Hilary Stock has been featured in Cornwall Today and Another Place, Watergate Bay’s annual magazine.
Her work, as seen on Houzz and Etsy, is used for interiors, including the spa at Watergate Bay Hotel on the north Cornwall coast. It has also been bought by private collectors as far afield as Greece and Germany.
HIMTOTTLE LE CHAT – PAUL SLATER
This quizzical portrait of a man dressed in a top hat and white mask suggests that there is a narrative to this portrait that we will not be able to fathom. Instead, it leads us to imagine it. Where is he going? with whom? Is he alive, deceased or make-believe?
WANTING TO PLAY – PADDY SCOTT
I took this in India from a tall railway bridge that crosses a big valley. I had been watching two men plowing a field beneath the bridge for a while when these three children came racing down the hill into the field. I just managed to grab this shot as they lined up so perfectly and then watched as the small girl chased the two boys around the field wanting to join in their game.
KIRKBYMOORSIDE – JAKE POLONSKY
Taken at Kirkbymoorside in Yorkshire, Polonsky captures the majestic grace of a historic oak shrouded in shadow. It’s a profound image of the idyllic English countryside, complete with lambs, fields and a scarcity of clouds.
MONTEREY – JENS LUCKING
A motif that runs throughout Lucking’s work is a shot that includes his shoes – as if to cast the photographer within the photograph as a sort of wry self-portrait. Titled ‘Monterey’, after the Californian city, Lucking focuses on the image of an old mercury car, whose headlights match his shoes.
WINTER TIME – GORA LUNA
These strikingly unique visions of plants protecting themselves from the depth of alpine winter suggest the majesty and strength of the natural world.
GHOSTS OVER THE RHONE RIVER – JACQUES PION
In ‘Ghosts over the River Rhone’, Pion has captured the beauty and mystery of the morning fog. Resembling more a painting than a photograph, one can almost feel the heavy haze of the fog as the world wakes up.
FLYLO – ANNA HIGGIE
Reminiscent of a famed 1960’s Free Love aesthetic that made its way onto some of the most famous album covers in the world, Higgie takes up the language of spiraling, colour hair amid leaves. It’s an image of soul – ingrained in our musical culture.
SALAD BOWL – LESLEY BUCKINGHAM
These beautiful illustrations are watercolour on paper.
GULLIVER – LORNA FREYTAG
Lorna Freytag fuses together her love for childrens stories in this captivating photographic illustration of the classic novel Gulliver’s Travels. This wonderful image portrays the strange and gripping tale with imagination and humour as Gulliver is transformed into the very child that imagines him.