Three Frome Artists

Frome-based photographer John Beeching has just published a book entitled Three Frome Artists.  Over the last year John has spent extended periods in the studios of three local artists photographically documenting them as they go about their creative work.  This process has enabled John to develop a close working relationship with his subjects, yet at the same time become part of the background.  Rather than formal compositions, the resulting pictures are un-posed portraits that reveal as much about the artists themselves as their relationships with their art and work surroundings.  The artists who are the subject of the book are well known both locally and nationally:

Gill Chambers, potter; Barry Cooper, painter and sculptor; and Stina Harris, etcher, painter and other media. The photographs show that creating art involves as much manual as intellectual work and that the studio and wider space in which the artist works is an integral part of that process – the apparent chaos of tools and objects to hand are carefully organised to be not only functionally useful but also aesthetically pleasing.

The book can be ordered from: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1395201

John Beeching’s many years experience as a street photographer have developed his skills at taking pictures caught on the fly; photos that rely less on formal composition than on the interplay between the unconscious vision and practised hand and eye of the photographer.  These informal, but well honed skills make him ideally suited to be a non-intrusive but active observer of artists at work.  John’s photographs have been published and exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic.  Selections from work in progress can be seen on: http://johnbeeching.com.

John Beeching
Email: johnbeeching@gmail.com
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