This year was the 25th year of the trail. The 65 venues were scattered around the historic town of Arundel and offered a wide range of painting, ceramics, photography, jewellery, furniture, textiles, illustrations and sculpture.
For me this year's trail was an opportunity to talk to some of the photographers exhibiting their work. I came across Darrell Gale's exhibition 'scandelight' early on. He focuses on architectural photography and I was interested to learn that he did not use Lightroom or Photoshop believing it better to limit the amount of post production processing.
More interesting was the discussion I had with Celia Henderson about one particular image she had amongst her exhibition. It was an interesting abstract but what drew my attention was the colour and play of light within the image. She described to me the commission that led to the image and the need to conjure up the colours of a peacock's feathers. This was done by casting a few drops of petrol onto a puddle of rain water, then using curves and levels in the processing of the image. An amazing image!
I also took the opportunity to chat to Christian Doyle, a photographer who was exhibiting some very good images of school life. What struck me was the impression that came over from the pictures that the subjects were not conscious of the camera. Thinking about Chris Killip's techniques of immersing himself in the community he wanted to capture and over time taking images that avoided the self consciousness of many subjects having their photo taken, I wondered what technique she used. It turned out that as you might expect with a commercial commission that time was limited which meant that the results came from skill, technique, imagination some degree of luck!!
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