Honey J Walker
Honey J Walker ARPS, is an impressionistic, summary photographer primarily based in London. Her unique profession within the style business developed her love of color, texture and design.
She works instinctively, responding as a lot to her environment as to her unconscious, emotional world. Honey has been brief listed for the Royal Photographic Society, Worldwide Pictures Exhibition consecutively over the past two years.
Her work is held in non-public collections and had been revealed internationally.
The Summary Rhythm And Blue Notes Exhibition on the Horsebridge Arts Centre is a celebration of photograph expressionism going down in Whitstable, Kent, from 16-Twenty eighth November 2022. It represents the artistic end result of an intensive year-long exploration of the intersection of images, artwork, abstraction and creativity by an eclectic group of 14 photographers below the tutelage of British photographers Valda Bailey and Doug Chinnery.
From 16-Twenty eighth November, this worldwide group of artists shall be not solely displaying their work however internet hosting a sequence of thrilling and informative, artistic workshops. For a timetable of talks and workshops out there, please go to www.arbnexhibition.co.uk.
The Summary Rhythm and Blue Notes course was meant to take a really various group of worldwide and British photographers who’re already free-thinkers and, in lots of circumstances, award successful artists on a deep dive into abstraction, ICM, surrealism, layering, compositing and all method of different genres. I used to be fortunate sufficient to be one of many college students accepted into this group.
The concept behind the course was to stretch us to allow us to every play with our cameras and our concepts with out concern of failure or ridicule. To look deeper, discover and uncover the unknown. Discover and uncover ourselves as artists. Break the foundations and constraints of conventional images, faucet into our feelings and permit the digital camera to talk for us.
As Minor White famously stated, “One mustn’t solely {photograph} issues for what they’re however for what else they’re”. And so started a journey of discovery.
My first expertise of ICM was seeing {a photograph} taken by Morag Paterson of some tulips. I’ll always remember that picture. I used to be blown away. I began researching ICM, and that inevitably led me to the work of Doug Chinnery and his good movies explaining the foundations of this darkish artwork.
Doug’s mastery of this style of images is famous. His capacity to jiggle and swoop his digital camera producing a picture of arresting magnificence and soulfulness, is thoughts blowing. By the point I had found Doug’s work, his title was turning into synonymous with in-camera layering legend Valda Bailey.
I first met Valda at Kew Gardens, the place I spent essentially the most wonderful afternoon together with her studying the artwork of in-camera layering. I felt like somebody had opened Pandora’s Field.
In a single afternoon, my artwork took an unlimited leap into the unknown. I lastly had discovered the style of images the place my unconscious had discovered oxygen.
I all the time consider that should you admire somebody and wish to discover ways to do what they do, then search them out. Study from the masters of their craft, to not emulate however so as to add these expertise to your toolbox and reimagine them into your personal imaginative and prescient, your personal voice.
This concept was central to the Blue Notes course to check different artists or genres of artwork and use these preliminary concepts or ideas as a springboard to ignite our imaginations.
This concept was central to the Blue Notes course to check different artists or genres of artwork and use these preliminary concepts or ideas as a springboard to ignite our imaginations.
The timing of the course couldn’t have been higher, with lockdowns and Covid dominating the information. Out of the blue the world had develop into the area of the 4 partitions we lived in.
The chance to commonly meet on-line with a gaggle of various and extremely gifted, like-minded photographers/artists was so rewarding and in the end grew to become the distraction all of us wanted from on a regular basis actuality and lockdowns.
My fellow students grew to become agency mates. The heat and generosity of spirit I encountered had been distinctive. The chance to have an project set and to see the person interpretation of that mission from every photographer at our present and inform conferences was actually fascinating, and I felt honoured and privileged to be a part of such a supportive and inventive group.
This new discovered freedom of expression enabled me to modify off the appropriate aspect of my mind, to be intuitive, to chill out and use it as a type of meditation.
The scope of the exhibition is effectively encapsulated by the title. Like in music the place blue notes are used for expressive functions and are sung or performed at a special pitch from the usual, the artists exhibiting listed below are utilizing the photographic model of blue notes to create their images- strategies, approaches and inventive imaginative and prescient that may be a completely different “pitch” from conventional representational images. The mastery and understanding of the function of strategies corresponding to intentional digital camera motion, or ICM, and in-camera a number of exposures are a key element of the work exhibited right here.
The nice outside is all the time a balm to the spirit, however at this specific time, I, like so many others, got here to worth the panorama and Mom Nature with a brand new respect. Enjoying with ICM and layering of pictures in my Canon 5R feels very consultant of nature however not in her literal kind; abstracted and layered, multi-faceted, an impression, as if a candy reminiscence.
A moment-caught, a motion like a breeze because it softly touches you after which is gone. The pictures we had been all creating felt extra nuanced, extra ethereal, with themes of hazard and rebirth, concern and hope intertwined. Our private challenges, desires, and interpretation of our inside and exterior area had been all revealed by our distinctive imaginative and prescient.
Homework tasks ranged from “{Photograph} the essence of your area” to “Interpret the refrain of “Bye Bye Miss American Pie”. We studied the ability and symbolism of kind and color, the Japanese artwork of Wabi Sabi, how surrealism might be expressed in images and lots of different equally inspiring and difficult subjects. The define of the course was all the time to widen our horizons, to encourage playfulness and bravado in our imaginative and prescient and, in the end in our pictures.
All this tough work is lastly culminating in an exhibition of the 14 particular person artists’ work on the thrilling and eclectic Summary Rhythm And Blue Notes Exhibition from 16-28 November.
Every artist will deliver their very own distinctive imaginative and prescient of their panorama by the varied and inventive genres of photograph expressionism, ICM and abstraction.
I’m honoured and proud to be amongst them.
The Artists
Valda Bailey: Birds Fly South
Valda Bailey is among the two founders of Bailey Chinnery, which runs in depth workshops and on-line programs for artistic photographers. She is an award wining artist, and her pictures are prized by each non-public collections and galleries.
Birds Fly South is from a sequence of pictures concerning the seaside in winter. Such locations have an elusive environment, a timeless, beautiful grace. The soothing rhythm of the waves and fading vacancy fills and nourishes the soul.
Sunlit Hills was taken domestically to Jan and varieties a part of a sequence of works capturing the seasonal modifications of the encircling countryside.
Jan Beesley ARPS: Sunlit Hills
Jan relies in Sussex. She makes use of her digital camera as an inventive software to precise her response to the panorama round her. She goals to seize not simply what’s in entrance of her however what she feels and the interaction of color, kind and lightweight. She prints her personal work and hand finishes work utilizing artistic strategies. Jan is a member of the RPS.
Sunlit Hills was taken domestically to Jan and varieties a part of a sequence of works capturing the seasonal modifications of the encircling countryside.
Alison Buchanan ARPS: Deserted
Based mostly in Sussex, Alison finds that she is searching for by her images to seize greater than the bodily presence of a spot. She concentrates on the emotions and feelings she experiences. This emotional response is obvious in her work. Alison is a member of the RPS.
Abandonded is a part of a sequence impressed by the e-book The Secrets and techniques Of The Sea Home by Elizabeth Gifford. It was taken on the Island Of Harris, among the many sand dunes.
Foggy Morning On The Grand Canal, taken in Venice, was captured utilizing a mixture of ICM and a number of publicity, to seize the essence of the scene. The chilly, the motion, the dampness of the fog.
Deborah Bohren: Foggy Morning On The Grand Canal
Deborah is an American primarily based photographer dwelling in Connecticut. She is an award successful photographer and her work has been exhibited in a number of museums and galleries throughout America. She makes use of her digital camera like a paint brush, to disclose the essence and emotion of a spot.
Foggy Morning On The Grand Canal, taken in Venice, was captured utilizing a mixture of ICM and a number of publicity, to seize the essence of the scene. The chilly, the motion, the dampness of the fog.
Doug Chinnery: Farmhouse In Elmet
Doug Chinnery is the opposite half of the Bailey Chinnery staff. He’s famend for his ICM work and his evocative and thought scary abstracts. Doug’s work hangs in each non-public collections and has been represented by quite a few galleries. This award successful artist is far wanted for his artistic work.
Farmhouse in Elmet is a part of a sequence of pictures known as “After Elmet”, impressed by the poems by Ted Hughs. They resonated with Doug as a result of they communicate of the panorama near the place he has lived for the final 37 years.
A Realm Past was impressed by his go to to Japan and meditating in a Buddhist temple in Kyoto.
Malcolm Cross: A Realm Past
Malcolm’s work is vibrant and summary, combining typical and inventive photographic strategies. He’s impressed by city and pure environments, authors, poets and creatives.
A Realm Past was impressed by his go to to Japan and meditating in a Buddhist temple in Kyoto.
Laura Goin: Ode To Spring
Laura is an American primarily based photographer who specialises in ICM and impressionistic work of the panorama, significantly of rural and nation scenes. Her work is enthused with color, and her capacity to seize the environment of a spot together with her painterly pictures is extremely regarded.
Ode To Spring, is impressed by the fantastic burst of color and life that follows the darkish days of winter. A real explosion of color and rebirth was taken within the Tuscan hills.
Yellow pants is a a number of publicity picture taken in deep mid-winter and evokes the biting coldness of a New York winter.
Linda Hacker: Yellow Pants
Linda is a New York primarily based visible artist impressed by the constructed setting. Her summary and semi summary pictures use images and blended media to analyze the depth, complexity and intimacy of the dwelling metropolis round her.
Yellow pants is a a number of publicity picture taken in deep mid-winter and evokes the biting coldness of a New York winter.
Dan Hartnett: Alone In A Storm
Dan is impressed by his lengthy and shut affiliation with the ocean. His work ranges from summary to nonetheless life images. He attracts from experiences and reminiscences of his time within the Service provider Navy and rising up on the Kent coast. His work explores our human relationship with the ocean, conjuring pictures, tales and reflections.
Alone In A Storm is a part of a sequence of labor exploring a ship’s log, the authorized doc recording the progress of a ships voyage. The Officer of the watch would write up entries into the log, the vessels place, climate and different important occasions throughout their watch.
Superbly Imperfect is from a set of labor impressed by the Japanese artwork of Wabi Sabi, the artwork of impermanence, an intuitive appreciation of ephemeral magnificence.
Freda Hocking: Superbly Imperfect
Freda is a UK primarily based photographer who’s impressed by the imperfection of nature and small issues. The main points of decay and destruction that maintain their very own magnificence. She is an award-winning photographer who has a pure capacity to search out stability, concord and lightweight in all her topics. Her pictures have an ethereal, lightness to them.
Superbly Imperfect is from a set of labor impressed by the Japanese artwork of Wabi Sabi, the artwork of impermanence, an intuitive appreciation of ephemeral magnificence. The picture was taken on a current go to to Lindisfarne, The Holy Island and is of the upturned boats and sails being weatherproofed.
Joycelyn Horsfall: Secret Backyard
Joycelyn is a London primarily based photographer specialising in atmospheric and evocative pictures impressed by flowers, foliage and the pure world. Her fashion is painterly and impressionistic, combing a robust sense of color and kind with an curiosity in texture and abstraction.
Secret Backyard is a part of a sequence of pictures taken utilizing comfortable focus, ICM and a number of publicity to create a fluid natural really feel.
Internal Necessity was impressed by the work of Kandinsky, “the need that artwork ought to all the time characterize the internal soul of issues”.
Annemarie Hoogwoud: Internal Necessity
Annemarie is motivated by the panorama, and taking time to immerse herself within the panorama is a typical theme in her work. By searching for silence and slowing down, she encapsulates the internal great thing about a spot. By way of the method of creation, she creates area inside herself which allows her to develop her creativity.
Internal Necessity was impressed by the work of Kandinsky, “the need that artwork ought to all the time characterize the internal soul of issues”.
Babara Kreutter: Seabirds
Barbara is a Canadian artist dwelling in Calgary. She started her creative profession as a textile designer, and this understanding of kind, texture, and color is obvious in her pictures. Inside her work is an exploration of sample and texture, concord of color and stability of form. She has exhibited within the UK, USA and Canada.
Seabirds was impressed by the nautical panorama and the stability of cool tones of water and the nice and cozy tones of motion.
Small Pleasures is a picture taken utilizing ICM and a number of exposures, it evokes the motion and marvel of woodland.
Iveta Lazdina: Small Pleasures
Iveta is a advantageous artwork photographer from Latvia. She is impressed by summary painters and strives to maneuver past the fact of a second or scene however to recreate her private response to the second or scene. She works to search out stability and concord between the internal and outer worlds.
Small Pleasures is a picture taken utilizing ICM and a number of exposures, it evokes the motion and marvel of woodland.
Howard Rankin: Autumn Of Reminiscence
Howard is an Essex primarily based photographer whose passions embrace music, nature and journey. His work has an empathetic high quality that explores the emotion of response to the setting, household, ageing and psychological fragility. He makes pictures utilizing each summary and conventional photographic strategies, typically combining the 2. He’s a famend music occasions photographer along with his summary work.
Autumn Of Reminiscence is a part of a sequence of labor exploring the theme of Dementia. The devastating impact it has on households and people struggling the demise of reminiscence.
Nightfall is from a sequence of pictures taken in Iceland utilizing ICM. It represents the marvel of hope and sweetness as sooner or later slips away earlier than the renewal of daybreak.
Honey J Walker ARPS: Nightfall
Honey’s pictures are all the time concerning the internal world. The converging of two scales; the bodily world, issues in themselves as they’re, and the inside world, mendacity hidden in all issues. A synchronism of the everlasting and the on a regular basis. She expresses her inside world by the layering of pictures that reveal themselves to her as she immerses herself within the topic. “My unconscious discovering oxygen”.
Nightfall is from a sequence of pictures taken in Iceland utilizing ICM. It represents the marvel of hope and sweetness as sooner or later slips away earlier than the renewal of daybreak.
