Here is a short video of the recent installation where you are encouraged to make your own abstract work from @600pieces_of_landscape that I made. I just found that people coming into my studio wanted to play with all the bits of coloured and shaped wood I had put on the shelves. Well now you can. Coming again locally soon. Thank you @ruby_crane123 for the film.
Richmond Park again this morning and this picture (all being well) is about the play between The Shard there and that dead tree frame left. Lots of other aspects that the big negative will reveal. The bird song was nice at the time and I am sorry to drown it out but into this Kamasi album at the moment, so here’s some jazz flute…
Scouting stretches of the Thames before it goes through the city. and will be coming back here in the next few days for sure. More central than you might think.
Back in the saddle. Looking at the Thames river between the city and Twickenham so let me know any little corners I need to look at. The old and the new.
Well if you are in Norfolk you know the weather you got. Come and dry out in our warm (?) shed/installation and play with colour. Thank you @crane_garden_buildings and @icywhiteart for the support. Open at Burnham Overy Staithe Boathouse today, Sat and Sun til 6.30. @600pieces_of_landscape
Some from today. One thing that v interesting is that you cant always tell which were done by children and which by adults. As it should be perhaps. @harrycorywright@600pieces_of_landscape
In Conversation with Harry Cory Wright
Meet @harrycorywright a celebrated visual artist known for his breathtaking photographs and paintings of English landscapes, particularly the saltmarsh around Burnham Overy Staithe, North Norfolk.
Harry’s images capture the dynamic interplay between the serene and wild, offering a glimpse into the ever-changing beauty of nature. His latest work, Vision of an Estuary, features 400 curated images across four albums: Springs, Meadows, Villages, and Out to Sea.
This collection invites you to explore the landscape’s history and create your own story of place. Having lived in Burnham Market since his early 20s, Harry’s deep connection with the land is evident in every piece. Using a traditional 10x8 inch wooden field camera, he brings a timeless, detailed approach to his work.
He is also part of the open studios, which run’s until Sunday 2nd June.
Link in bio to read the full article about his journey.
#HarryCoryWright#LandscapePhotography#ArtAndNature#JamiesonPropertySearch#InConversationWith#EnglishLandscapes#BurnhamOveryStaithe#ArtJourney#natureinart
Here are some of the works that folk have made in the orange shed installation in Burnham Overy Staithe. You create (and photograph?) your own work made from the 600 pieces on the shelves… each one some aspect of the estuary landscape. Learning about what it is and where it might go. What mostly we hear is that it’s very calming. Come and play. Open till Sunday 2nd June. 10 til 6. Burnham Overy Boathouse, burnham Overy Staithe. Norfolk. PE318FF
There’s an instagram account @600pieces_of_landscape
Show opens this Saturday 25th May till June 2nd
Burnham Overy Boathouse
Norfolk
PE31 8FF
Will post a picture as soon as the fab orange shed of an installation is in place, but for the moment… here is the text that is going on the wall;
‘This is an installation of 600 small individual units made in my studio, laid out randomly on three shelves in the orange ‘studio’ to your left.
Each unit is unique, of varying colour, tone and shape and represents some visual aspect of the estuary here. Some of the pieces are also photographs. You are encouraged to explore what happens when you consider arranging these units together on one of the boards provided on the workbench below the shelves; two, perhaps three or more pieces together.
A thousand years ago a Carmelite friary was built on the banks of this estuary. It would have been a busy hub with links to the nearby churches and the village just upstream. Ships of reasonable size came and went, bringing all manner of life to the broad expanse of water that must, at all stages of the tide have been a lagoon of thriving activity, all at a time when the world was lit only by fire.
The thing is, it is no longer an estuary and hasn’t been for centuries, since the sea defences were built and shored it all up. So, as with many landscapes, it is now somewhere to look for clues as to how you might read the place.
Walking the contours of here, the imagination is fired by broken fragments of history. I can hazard a guess what it might have been like to sail into the estuary from the sea early one morning, or to be rowed across that lagoon on a busy Saturday afternoon but these quickly become just stories, my own narratives that say as much about my limitations as about anything else. I would need even more words to give you the real flavour of it all. Which would be to miss the point. This installation aims to do away with the need for information and I hope provides a silent ‘piecing together’ of colours and images that set you on your own journey up and down the estuary, finding your own patterns and clues to what the place might be and have been.... a silent evocation on the experience of being in landscape.
This big print sold today at Phillips Auction in London. To be commercial, you never know what will happen when works sold a few years ago then come up on the open market. Not that I see any of it, but this sold just fine. ‘West across the Minch’ from the series Journey through the British Isles.
