Letter from Home

Letter from Home Photographs and paintings of memories of home; Charlotte and JavierTernero

09.10.24 – 02.11.24

JavierTernero As a habit, I try to maintain a certain balance between control and uncertainty. The best way to achieve this, I find, is through practice, accepting and appreciating the nuances of the medium and always keeping up the will to learn.

I was born and brought up in Seville, Spain.

After moving to Scotland in 2001, I am now based in the Yarrow valley, Selkirk.

I started photography somehow, in an unstructured way, when I started printing negatives, long before I owned a camera.

When I was in high school I bought a well-used enlarger and prepared a space at home and started printing old family negatives. After a few years printing , I bought my first camera, a 35mm.

Being self-taught, I realised I needed some guidance in order to advance in certain areas, and that’s when I decided to move to Scotland,

where I gained an Advanced Diploma at Stevenson College in Edinburgh.

Since then, I have been working on long term personal photographic projects with ethnic minority communities and the way they live nowadays.

More recently, using nineteenth century printing processes, I’ve been photographing Scottish Victorian architecture.

October 2024 Exhibitions 2021 Burnside gallery; joint show with Alison Scott 2019 East Linton show 2016 – 2019 Several shows, Coburg Open Studios

Quiet Sound 18 x 18cm Silver gelatin print, sepia toned Walnut frame £180

Non-professional. Lucie International photography award (I.P.A) with project ‘To live in the Andes’

2013 – 2017 Several joint exhibitions with Charly Murray in Edinburgh 2015

Talk to students of photography at the Edinburgh Drawing School

2014

Exhibition Spanish photographs FilmHouse, Spanish Film Festival.

2007

Exhibition ‘To Live in the Andes’ Cameo Edinburgh.

Awards 2017

Grant from the Richard Coward SPA in Photography Trust

2013

Shortlisted Environmental photographer of the year 2013. Joint exhibition at the Royal Geographic Society, London

2013

Residency, Ireland. Cill Rialaig Ring of Skellig, Ireland

2010

Winner, Culture category,

2010

Runner up Scottish Landscape photographer of the Year ‘Lines in the Landscapes’ category

2007

Shortlisted British Journal of photography, Assistant Project Award for ‘To Live in the Andes’

Qualifications Advance Diploma Photography.

Stevenson College. Edinburgh 2003/07 https://javierternerophotography.com

Coffee is Ready 20.5 x 15.5cm Silver gelatin print, sepia toned Hand coloured Walnut frame £180

Doorway 20.5 x 15.5cm Silver gelatin print,, sepia toned Walnut frame £180

Old Granary 15 x 19cm Silver gelatin print,, sepia toned Hand coloured Walnut frame £180

Old Pots 18.5 x 16.5cm Silver gelatin print, sepia toned Hand coloured Walnut frame £180

Triana Bridge 13 x 18cm Silver gelatin print, sepia and selenium toned Walnut frame £180

OrangeTrees 13 x 18cm Silver gelatin print, sepia and selenium toned Walnut frame £180

Sunday Morning 36 x 28cm Silver gelatin print, sepia toned Walnut frame £180

Midsummer Day Whole plate Silver Chloride contact print Walnut frame £180

Talla Stell Whole plate Cyanotype, tea toned Walnut frame £180

Distant Hills Whole plate Silver gelatin print, sepia toned Walnut frame £180

The Day Before Whole plate Silver gelatin print, Selenium toned Walnut frame £180

Border Farm Whole plate Gelatin silver print, selenium toned Walnut frame £180

Coming Back Half plate Silver Chloride contact print Walnut frame £180

By the Coast Whole plate Silver Chloride contact print Walnut frame £220

Poppy Whole plate Silver Chloride contact print Walnut frame £180

CharlotteTernero CharlotteTernero

Recent Joint exhibitions

Graphic design and painting are pretty close together, at least as far as my work goes. Both are concerned with getting across a message by composition, empty space and colour. I see, as I’m trained to see, from that point of view.

2021

Home equates, for me, to knowing someone or somewhere well. I have revisited old memories and places for this exhibition and found they all have the same spirit which I hope to communicate in these paintings. The painter, Patrick George said of one the reasons he painted was that: ‘I believe we are in heaven and it’s high time people realised that’.

(2010 exhibition catalogue for Browse & Darby gallery).

October 2024

Burnside gallery, Selkirk with John Onslow

2009 – 2020 Mcnaughtans gallery, Edinburgh with Javier Ternero, The Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Art Art Gallery and Museum, Paisley Three Harbours Festival, East Lothian, Coburg House Open Studios, Edinburgh Art and Design Library, Edinburgh 2013

Residency in Cill Rialaig, Ireland

Graphics 1999 – 2009 Graphics then book designer

Hayfield before Nout Hill 55 x 75cm Watercolour; Saunders Waterford paper Maple, lime waxed frame £290

Education 2009 – 2017 Glasgow School of Art: part time anatomy drawing and painting 2008 – 2009 Leith School of Art 1997 – 2000 Hnd Typographical design, part time London School of Printing 1995 – 1996 Foundation course Part time Kingston University 1980 – 1984 MA in English and Medieval History; University of St Andrews Website www.charlyternero.co.uk

Peat Law 24.5 x 68cm Watercolour; Fabriano printing paper Ash, painted frame £260

Field before Peat Law 40 x 50cm Oil on gessoed board Tulip with gesso frame £250

Cheviots from Helm Plantation, July 42 x 56cm Watercolour and charcoal Saunders Waterford paper Maple frame £290

Icy Mist on the fieldl 15 x 22.5cm Watercolour; on treated watercolour paper Walnut frame £180

Cheviots from Helm Plantation, October 45 x 90cm Oil on canvas Cherry frame £290

Garden 32 x 29.5cm Pastel Ash, lime wax, frame £160

CherryTree 58 x 49.5cm Oil on canvas Walnut frame £320 With half the price donated to Action Aid

Ladhope Middle 21 x 30cm Watercolour; Maple, Lime waxed frame £160

Burnside gallery

Burnside gallery 48 Market Place, SelkirkTD7 4BL www.burnsidegallery.co.uk • Wed – Sat 10 -4

©˙ Javier and CharlotteTernero