Lost in a Landscape: Scottow
Memory has a strange tonal range, there are sparks of colour in between the washes of grey and flat spots of black or white. I have a very distinct memory of first learning to ride a bike. Oddly for some reason that escapes me it wasn’t at the hands of a parent...
Lost in a Landscape: Stratton Strawless
There is this thing were you travel through a landscape, passing things, that have become lost, part of the blur of the countryside, the unnoticed facets of a landscape which sit just back, away from our arterial routes cut as they are by human traffic. It’ is also...
Lost in a Landscape: Wayland Wood
There is a darkness in woodland, hiding in the shade of the green canopy, something that retracts in the sunlight in the corner of your vision, beyond the growing and shrinking of the shadows with each revolution of the earth on its tipping axis. Beyond the sterility...
Lost in a Landscape: Trunch
There’s a lot in a name, Trunch has one that doesn’t fit in in Norfolk, or in fact in England. Locally it sits uneasily with the profusion of ~hams and ~tons, and ~bys and ~thorps. East Anglia’s toponymy is that of the invaded, repeatedly settled. People who...
Lost in a Landscape: Rich pickings – Swafield
‘Fruit picking’ and ‘Pick your own’, still seen on cardboard hand painted signs still wedged in hedges and gateways, were and are a summer long routine in Norfolk. The memory flickers up from somewhere as I drive, I’m here and not, between sunlight and cloud on...IW on Facebook
Exhibition is open again, 10 - 4 each day until Sunday at Hungate Medieval Art. Pop down. I'll be about all weekend and popping in and out during the week.
Image: Lakenhalle A composite of Ypres Cloth Hall made of postcards and photos dating from 1905, through the destruction and rebuilding up to the present day. Posters currently only available at the exhibition, at a discounted rate.
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Hundreds flock to ‘moving and poignant’ World War One exhibition
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A local landscape photographer has opened a new Norwich exhibition featuring photographs of the Western Front to mark the World War One Centenary.This turned up today at the exhibition. Thanks to Andy Haylett for bringing it in. I may have had something in my eye.