January 2022 No. 12
WELCOME TO THE FIRST VISUAL ART GROUP NEWSLETTER OF 2022 This edition of your newsletter has an interesting and varied content, we hope you will enjoy reading it. Aindreas Scholz BA (Hons) has given us a thought provoking article on plastic pollution in the oceans. Michael Longhurst FRPS shares his thoughts on gaining his fellowship with images of the Namibian desert. Jose Closs ARPS, always ready to try something new, explains what hallowlights and glorypools are. Her article is accompanied by several wonderful images. We also have the an article on Circles by Robert Hughes LRPS, and we have updates on the Brighton residential weekend, exhibitions and regional meetings.
DISTINCTION SUCCESSES We congratulate the following Visual Art Group members on their recently gained RPS Distinctions: Jane Berrisford
LRPS
Helena Jones Colin Lamb John Nash ARPS Landscape
Martyn Scull
ARPS Photobooks
Francesco Marchetti
FRPS Film
Judith Kimber
FRPS Natural History Victor Wong FRPS Applied & Port.
Colin Trow-Poole
FRPS Landscape
Edward Hyde Stephen Lewis
2022 SPRING RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND The forthcoming residential weekend in Brighton has attracted a lot of interest and many members have already booked their places. It promises to be an excellent weekend with a full programme of events, inspirational speakers and superb coast and city locations.
Workshops and Talks There will be two workshops and various talks during the weekend, the first being a workshop and talk from Paul Mitchell FRPS. Paul is currently the Chair of the Visual Art Distinctions panel and also serves on the Landscape Distinction Panel. His talk and workshop ‘The Seeing Eye’ encourages the participants to look beyond the obvious and explores details, textures, shapes found in nature and man-made objects. He will be taking his group around the less familiar parts of Brighton and his talk will be accompanied by images of his work as always. The second workshop and talk will be conducted by Tony Bramley FRPS . Tony works from his home studio/offices near Colchester in Essex. He has been working as a professional photographer for over twenty five years. In 2016, he started The Light Academy, photography training for one2ones, group training & group workshops. In December 2015 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society for his unique conceptual work on Suprematism within photography. This was followed with the RPS Fellowship of the Year Award in 2016. Tony is a photographer working in a very unique style and his talk ‘The Russians Are Coming’ is his photographic journey that eventually led to him receiving his Fellowship. Tony’s workshop will be centered around ‘Brighton’s Modernist Architecture’ Although known for its Regency architecture, Brighton has a good history of more Modernist works. The workshop will explore some of Brighton’s key modernist buildings including Brighton’s Art Deco and Brutalism period. Many, as expected, are central to the seafront and main town. Time will be allowed also for any Post Modern and Contemporary buildings we pass on the route. In addition, there will be talks from Andy Holliman who will be discussing Abstraction in Photography and Jo Teasdale FRPS who will be giving talks on both of her major projects – ‘My Adopted Family’ and ‘The Factory’ If anyone would like more information please contact me on mike.kitch@outlook.com Mike Kitchingman LRPS