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Sadly the annual pilgrimage to Cornwall is now over for another year. As always I had a wonderful time however as the weather was warm and sunny there was less time spent in galleries and more on the beach!
However those galleries I did visit were very interesting indeed. The highlight was a visit to the new Exchange Gallery in Penzance. Although the exhibition was not to my taste the gallery itself was an amazing place and I am looking forward to visiting again in the future and hopefully finding an exhibition more to my liking.
Also in Penzance I visited the PZ Gallery which specialises in showing a wide range of photography including contemporary and archival exhibits. The exhibition included large mono photographic prints by Charles Roff and by Simon Marsden that were truly impressive.
I was also lucky enough to pay a return visit to the gallery in Porthleven which sells work by David Penprase whose skills I much admire. The gallery were showing fewer samples of his work this year as some of his pieces are perhaps too much for a tourist venue but I find his complex compositions thought provoking and very striking.
During my recent holiday I managed to capture hundreds of images and I have been busy selecting and working up the best of these for addition to my personal stock library of objects to use in my montage work. I also captured a number of found still life images which I hope will make interesting monochrome works.
One of my favourite locations is Priest Cove which is a tiny but very atmospheric harbour at Cape Cornwall just a few miles up the coast from Lands End.
Many of my black and white prints were captured there and as usual I was scurrying about the rocks photographing the seashore and the wide variety of fishing gear that is scattered about the cove. Sadly the rock curve included in my work of the same name is no more as the action of the sea has destroyed the sinuous shape that first caught my eye and which made the shot so successful. The print has featured widely in exhibitions and the photographic press and is now in a private collection.
I can still make out the remnants of the shape from the few remaining rocks and I did try again to capture them in an interesting composition but it will be for a personal record of what used to be. I was extremely lucky to get the shot when I did and it will now be unique.
Now looking forward to my annual visit to Pittenweem Arts Festival next week and fingers are crossed for the weather!