Bright sparks, creative hands, young minds. Working with three local artists - Colm Docherty, Sam Jones and Sandi Kiehlmann.....
...local kids explore their creativity - discovering textures, drawing and sketching built and natural environment, using natural materials as artistic tools and resources and more....
These workshops were run as part of the beautiful and extraordinary Julie Brook exhibition at the Burgh Hall Dunoon - art inspiring art inspiring our bright sparks.
All images are ©Burgh Hall Dunoon and Powan Ltd -
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Cold, grey, dreich but beautiful - skylines and roofs making exquisite shapes in the glowering sky, astonishing architecture, pigeons with attitude and kids bouncing with vigour, vim and gallusness. This was half-term, that was Edinburgh.....
All images are ©JeanDonaldson/powanmedia -
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Having spent a lot of 2013 wishing I lived somewhere a bit more urban and frenetic, looking at the superb street photography of colleagues and peers with envy, I came to the decision at Hogmanay that:
a) Envy was a pointless, tiresome waste of time - I'm never going to move again (probably).
b) I should capitalise on the extraordinary environment I am very lucky to live in.
With this in mind, I began to think how I could use the breathtaking landscapes that surround our wee wooden house in a way that suited my passion for photographing people. And so the idea of the 'Little Red' project was born.
The idea was to frame the landscape in a way that emphasised its sheer size, wild and remoteness by using a small figure captured in each frame, often gazing out to the land or lochs, or moving through the spaces. The winter in Argyll is a bleak and beautiful season, full of washed out, muted colours and often overcast skies. By dressing my figure in red she or he would be a distinct presence throughout the images - and the size of Little Red would emphasise also a sense of isolation in a vast space.
250 raw images later, which were distilled down to 45 and a final cherry pick of the 10 strongest images - here is Little Red:
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