A view into one of the Open Gardens of Saltaire Festival. Inside this “secret garden” I found an artist and beautiful, red ceramic treasures.
For Norm’s Thursday Doors.
Thursday Doors
Saltaire Festival
CBW: Two Different Things
OK, so I’m cheating a litle bit here, but I would say that it is very different to have a two of clubs hanging in your back yard.
52 Week Photo Challenge: Week 6 Red
It has been festival time again and my favourite thing about the 9 day event is the Open Gardens. The Victorian terraced houses in the model village of Saltaire have quite small back yards, but even so some of the local residents open their gardens for the weekend so that strangers can wander in and out and admire their “small space” creativity. Each garden also generally hosts an artist who will exhibit their work in amongst the plants. If you are lucky, the artist may even be there, I love talking to the creators about their work, they are so passionate about it and it is really inspirational. I was lucky enough to meet and talk to Sally Barker, an artist who has just started working in ceramics (visit her website sallybarker.org to see more of her work). Her pieces were exhibited on the walls of one of the gardens, it’s probably a complete cliche, but they had a truly organic feel to them. They reminded me of the fungi that you see growing on tree stumps, my other half said they reminded him of wasps nests. Created by squeezing little bits of clay and meticulously piecing them all together when they were fired, the glaze moved to the edges to create the unique look around the beautiful glowing blood red paint.
OWPC: Candid
Candid shots of stall owners and performers at Saltaire Festival. I love their expressions of joy!
For Jennifer Nicole Wells’s One Word Photo Challenge: Candid
and Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Events
PS: My new blog planner came through today, compiled by Jennifer Nicole Wells. It’s very cool with lots of lists of upcoming challenges, monthly calendars and plenty of space for notes, whether it will make me more organised is yet to be seen…!
The Buzz Inn
The beautiful wooden doors on this insect hotel are part of an interactive learning display. The captions on the doors lead you to find who might be living inside…
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Doors and Drawers and Norm’s Thursday Doors
I’m gradually coming to the end of a rather busy time, WP and the blog have had to take a bit of a back seat. Hopefully now I will be able to catch up with you all, I’ve missed seeing your posts and catching up. Have a great weekend! 🙂
Colour your World: Shocking Pink
Over the next three months, as part of Jennifer Nicole Wells “Colour Your World”, I will be joining in with 120 Days of Crayola. Every day a different colour from the Crayola crayon pack.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Hats
This selection of vintage hats come from some of the stalls in the houses and the hall at our local annual festival.
Cee’s Which Way Challenge: Final week!
This is the last week for Cee’s Which Way Challenge. Next week she introduces a different challenge, called Compose Yourself!
The festival gets so busy, we need signs to ease the congestion over the pedestrian bridge. Now as everyone saunters home, it hardly seems to matter which way we go!
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Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Musicians
Each week, Cee Neuner from Cee’s Photography, sets us a black and white challenge. Each week she features a selection of posts from the previous theme and gives us a list of upcoming themes.
This week’s theme is music and musicians. Here are some pictures of musicians from a local festival.
For more music and musicians visit Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge.
