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Photographic Print. A departure post it note by the previous owner of my home,...if I pop my clo...
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Photographic Print. A good bye post it note left by the previous owner of my home, written with ...
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Photographic Print. 1960's Italian green glass vase, doorway and golden orbs of light in the ove...
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Photographic Print. Looking through the doorway with fairy lights and chandelier out into the li...
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Photographic Print. A chandelier and view into the garden became abstract photography with globe...
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Photographic Print. Lion door knocker with beam me up transporter beam chandelier in 1960's Mode...
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Photographic Print. Lion face door knocker with Modernist door and slit shapes in 1960's interio...
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Photographic Print. Open door and 1950's mid century balustrade making an abstract zig zag shape...
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Photographic Print. Doorway to the light and Modernist 1950's zig zag metal balustrade for the s...
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Photographic Print. Doorways leading from Modernist interior through open door into the garden i...
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Photographic Print. Swinging chandelier and fairy lights with a doorway onto a green secret gard...
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Photographic Print. Doorway to green through Star Trek transporter beam chandelier with gold hig...
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Photographic Print. Doorway to garden with white globe light and light orb. As I stood in the u...
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Photographic Print. 1960's lantern outside light against the pink Cherry Blossom tree in my gard...
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Photographic Print. Cherry Blossom and Brambles illuminated by sunlight through the glass of my ...
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Photographic Print. Green and blue haze and reflections and a bird through the glass of the gree...
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Photographic Print. Green and blue haze and reflections through the glass of the greenhouse in m...
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Photographic Print. Steps to aluminium greenhouse overgrown with Brambles, surrounded by trees i...
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Photographic Print. Looking through the green Bramble covered greenhouse to the sky. If the gre...
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Photographic Print. On the glass roof of the aluminium greenhouse covered in Brambles in my gard...
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Photographic Print. Looking from above onto the glass and greenhouse frame under overgrown Bramb...
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Photographic Print. Buddha stone statue amongst Bluebells in golden light with some Lilac from m...
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Photographic Print. Retro globe light, White Lilies in overgrown Brambles, head towards the ligh...
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Photographic Print. Globe light and overgrown Brambles making green tunnels in garden of my home...
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Photographic Print. White globe light and white Lilies in overgrown wild secret garden. I had t...
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Photographic Print. Cherry Blossom fallen onto Heron and Bluebells around a garden pond. This p...
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Photographic Print. Great white Heron with Bluebells watching over my garden pond. I think he i...
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Photographic Print. Heron, Angel, Bluebells and a red light around my garden pond. The stone an...
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Photographic Print. Heron, Bluebells, stone Angel statue, arc of light and some yellow lights ar...
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Photographic Print. Heron and Bluebells around a garden pond with Cherry Blossom floating. ...
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Photographic Print. Still life of Dog waiting by the steps with carmine red Roses, stone Rabbit,...
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Photographic Print. Still life of Dog waiting at steps for owner in dappled light. The dappled ...
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Photographic Print. Golden evening light on scene of a dog waiting on the greenhouse steps for i...
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Photographic Print. Still life photography of dog, red Roses, rabbit on stone steps scene. As t...
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Photographic Print. Gardener's abandoned workbench in my greenhouse surrounded by green hazy lig...
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Photographic Print. Gardener's workbench in my greenhouse surrounded by Brambles. The workbench...
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Photographic Print. Gold cross on greenhouse covered with Brambles at sunset and light coming th...
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Photographic Print. Diffused sunlight streaming through the greenhouse glass roof surrounded by ...
An oversized 'Pink' skip filled the drive, spilling over onto the tarmac; dominoes, mother of pearl cufflinks, cine film reels. Debris, the remains of human existence. As I viewed this house, unlived in for a year, the 1960's wall lights, glittered stone effect wallpaper and views of rain dripping Larch trees touching the roof, trees beyond, it mesmerised me. I looked at the 2 foot leaking hole in the ceiling, 2 leaking wall holes, all the walls like Miss Haversham's house, the bath full of spiders' eggs but I viewed it as if through a haze, saying to myself, oh yes, I really like this house. I felt it. Every group viewing was full of people. I told a friend there were lots of builders. He said, 'oh so forget it, move onto the next'. I said, 'No !, because if you don't go into the shop, you can't buy anything from the shop !'. I have no idea where that came from, maybe a spark of my mum's unwaning positivity but I went step by step. Strangers kept wishing me luck, I think because they could see how much I wanted it. For extra measure, I asked a very positive Brazillian man I know to think of me at my auction lot time. The telephone bidding rose with speed then stopped at my red line bid. I started to clean the door then stopped, the pink post it note said, ' If I have popped my cloggs without telling people, I apologise.....', I had to photograph it then had to stand back and take more, intrigued by the light through the doorway and on the walls, a light switch, a 'Rover' like white globe. I moved my chandelier to add energy, the good energy she and her husband Ernest and 3 dogs created in the house. Everyone remarks, you've got a lot of work ! but then say....there's a good vibe or energy here. In transition from being Beryl's home to mine. I couldn't physically remove her note, smoke stained paint and overgrown garden, I couldn't dismantle it, it wasn't fully mine until I had photographed it. Photographing the note extended for weeks into the room and garden. The interaction of life and death.Transition.Doorways.Switches.Bolts, locks and keys.
A tribute to Beryl, who by all accounts was a 'character', an eccentric who lost her husband then lived alone for 10 years. 'She didn't do anything to the garden after that, she used to sit at the breakfast bar watching the birds fly away, drinking tea, smoking, she lived on tea and biscuits. She liked fairy lights.', They are all over the garden, not working.
After going in and out of hospital she died in a home and her home went to the equity release company, put up for auction. I am not deeply religious but I wanted to give her perhaps, a more joyous send off. Her leaning globe of light to light her on her way and reminding me of 'Rover'. I will repair it to light my way in the garden. A doorway out from her home into the green and the light. I felt a swish and a flourish of a chandelier was required as she left. If the greenhouse seems as if it has been photographed in a way which is cathedral like, it is because my childhood home had greenhouses. An idyllic 10 foot high walled garden surrounded by woods. A home lost. I search for an element of it. It is my reason for giving a small greenhouse a sense of grandeur, if a little faded, fallen grandeur. My new home is a 'secret garden' for me to restore.An element of something found from a place once lost.
In the photographs I am honouring someone else's home, who lived here, taking away the dead wood, revealing its secret treasures and embellishing it with new growth and energy. Treasures I didn't see for weeks under the brambles. A greenhouse, a weathered plastic Heron, a pond, a rockery of white granite, lanterns, 2 stone Buddhas, red Roses, 3 white Lillies rendered beautiful from weathering, a stash of large foreign shells in the loft. In the door knocker, the chandelier reminds me of a transporter beam in Star Trek original series.
The orb of light in some photographs was inspired by the globe in the episode, 'From Venus with love' in the 1960's tv series The Avengers. The greenhouse, dog, Buddha and especially the Heron have a slightly surreal colour, I didn't use a flash or saturation, I waited for rain clouds colour. My garden is filled with birds. I step out into it and cause a swooping of wings in all directions. I feel I am disturbing them in their home. They will get used to me.
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