I am taking part in the Mill Town Arts Exhibition at the Town Hall from 11th January until the 7th February. This is a collective exhibition of some of the Mill Town artists with exciting and diverse work.
The two, fairly large pieces of work, of mine are on the same Shop Window Reflection theme that I have been pursuing for many years. They are both different in execution one being a pencil drawing on cartridge paper and the other a watercolour, both with a slight sense of humour.
One is of a long gone Hebden Bridge Opticians shop window, on Albert Street, where the images of some aspects of the reflection become slightly blurry and has a little double vision in the street name and other aspects, appropriate for an opticians. A plants obscures the Opticians name making it difficult to see and recognise the shop. It is a moment captured in time, things have moved on and changed. The shop is now a barbers.
The other is a diving Shop called ‘Below the Surface’ in Hebden Bridge reflecting a market day, where the shop display yields fish swimming across the reflected hill side and sub aqua divers swimming across the street. Underwater, again appropriate for Hebden Bridge, can be seen a muddle of coral, a person crossing, yellow traffic lines, stones, crabs and myself, watching and photographing this specticle.
Both pictures are from the outside of the shop looking in.
Mill Town Arts is a diverse collective of artists and creatives working in and out of the Calder valley. They organise a range of ‘not for profit’ events and exhibitions throughout the year.