Today there are a couple of members of the Greyfriars group who are invigilating the exhibition so I do not need to be present all day. I arrived just as the first person was opening up the building and I explained about the picture which had been sold. I went away again and walked aroundRead more about 21st May 2025[…]
Red Dot day! Today I sold one of my pictures. A lady came in, looked around the gallery and came up to me and said “I would like to buy one of your pictures”. The picture she chose was “Windswept”, the picture of a tree bent by the westerly wind which blows across the Fens.Read more about 20th May 2025[…]
A quiet day as there is little else on in King’s Lynn. Only 20 people visited and nobody bought anything today. I spent some time whilst there was nobody there to record some video of the exhibition including a piece to camera. I decided that without a script and talking ‘off the cuff’ the resultRead more about 19th May 2025[…]
My first day on my own as the invigilator at the Customs House. I opened up just after 10 am,although as I had to make an emergency purchase on my way in, I was slightly delayed due tothe shops not opening until 10 am on a Sunday. I had some visitors immediately, before I hadRead more about 18th May 2025[…]
The first day of my exhibition. I arrived at the Tourist Centre at 10 am to get the keys, thenwalked to the Customs House to open it up. A few minutes later, the committee head of theGreyfriars Art Space arrived. Shortly after viewing my exhibition, she noticed the print browser in which I had placedRead more about !7th May 2025[…]
Build day. I was unable to start building the exhibition until the afternoon as the previous exhibitionwas being removed in the morning, which had been open until the day before. I was able to start hanging the pictures at about 1 pm. The framed images are hung by nyloncords from the top of the whiteRead more about 16th May 2025[…]
I have uploaded the final version of the walkthrough of the virtual version of my exhibition for my peers to see. I have only had one reply to date, which was from Jonathan Lamb suggesting that a map of the Fens with the locations of the images would be a good addition to the exhibition.Read more about Project 8- Mockup and final peer review[…]
At the gallery’s suggestion, I have created greeting cards featuring my images, which can be sold at my exhibition and beyond. I have chosen three of what I consider to be the best images and ordered 10 cards of each, which I will put for sale at £2.50 each. Any not sold, I will leaveRead more about Greetings Cards[…]
This should be my final update of my virtual exhibition before the real thing.
Gary Bainbridge, A Different Light on the Fens 2025 Artist Statement I have always been interested in alternative photographic techniques, and for this project: A Different Light on the Fens, I have used infrared photography to bring out the particular character of this part of East Anglia. This flat land, which covers parts ofRead more about Artist Statement[…]