We're travelling to the South Wales coast for our Autumn 24 weekend and we'll be based in Cardiff. We've lined up our usual cohort of three workshops two of whom will be centering on Cardiff and the Bay with entirely different agendas as outlined below and the third one is exploring the delights of the Welsh Jurassic Coast.
The hotel is the:
Mercure Cardiff North,
Circle Way East, Llanedeym Cardiff
CF23 9XF
It’s approximately 10 – 15 mins to Cardiff Bay and is within easy travelling distance of most places by public transport (Bus stop adjacent to the hotel) including the city centre and Museums.
Cardiff Bay (once Tiger Bay) has changed considerably since I was last there around 50 years ago (yikes, that takes me back) and is now a vibrant hub with the Wales Millennium Centre (a day’s exploring in itself) and all the new cafes and shops that have sprung up.
There's also Cardiff Castle, the indoor market and a couple of museums to explore for those that aren't photographically inclined.
The Welsh Jurassic coast is ideal for seascapes, rock strata and formations and travelling 30 mins north you're in the Black Mountains or the Brecon Beacons.
Jonathan Vaines
Jonathan is a Photographic Educator, he runs weekly workshops for the RPS Digital Imaging Group, teaches Photoshop on-line for organisations here in the UK and North America as well as teaching one to one. He generally works with images in sets and often produces abstract work using a number of In Camera and Post Processing techniques. The workshop will be centred around Cardiff Bay with the objective of Creating Art.
In the evening his talk will guide you through the benefit of working in sets and why projects are important to every photographer. He will provide an insight to his planning and final image production. His website can be viewed here https://blueroomphoto.site123.me
Ed Rumble
Ed is a landscape and architecture photographer based in London. Escaping early confinement in the studio, Ed quickly discovered the joy of celebrating beauty in both wild and pastoral landscapes. Moving to London in the 1990’s broadened his vision to encompass the shapes and forms of city architecture, both ancient and modern. Throughout his career, Ed has worked with a variety of photographic equipment from 35mm, medium and large format, both film and digital, in colour and in black and white. His work is often distinguished by an understated elegance, achieved through graphic simplicity, order and design. Ed’s work has been published in various books and magazines and his photographs are held in the collections of both corporate and private clients.
In Cardiff, Ed will focus on creating images of the exciting architectural forms the City has to offer, old and new, abstract and more literal interpretations, helping participants to form an emotional response to this thriving city. He will be happy to share ideas on composition and technique as well as some of the more important post processing skills that architectural photography often demands. With an academic background in philosophy, his evening talk questions whether our art is purely subjective and asks if we can move our photographs towards an objective definition of beauty, drawing on recent developments in philosophy, psychology and neuroscience.
Tom Sullam
Tom has taken a labyrinthine route to professional photography. Following a degree in psychology at university, he found himself in the depths of city life in London. Still a little unclear as to what he was doing there, 10 years on he took some sound advice and pressed the reset button. That advice, fortunately, came from none other than Charlie Waite, his uncle. Trips to Scotland, Dorset and central France followed with Charlie, which introduced Tom to the finer side of landscape photography. A couple of years later, both Charlie and Tom set up a photography tour to the US, taking a group of American photographers to different parts of that incredible country. It was during these tours that Tom really developed his understanding of landscape photography, and more importantly developed his own eye for what he saw.
Tom spent 6 years living in Tanzania where he focussed entirely on multiple exposure and layering techniques, producing a large collection of East African inspired layered images. These were exhibited in Dar Es Salaam and sold out within a week. He has been encouraged by this and continues now to work on this side of his artistic photography, currently focussing on Cornwall and surfers.
He continues to run one on one photography workshops now, but also has a commercial side to his photography – as an Interior photographer. His style and technique is very much influenced by what he developed on his landscape workshops. He is also one of the founders of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, a hugely popular contest celebrating the positive side of wildlife, borne out of a desire to help focus people’s attention on sustainability and bio diversity.
Tom has yet to recce the area to confirm his workshops but he's away with a Light & Land workshop at the moment but he'll be looking coastal, possibly Dunraven Bay, Nash point and Cwnm Mawr all around 30 mins from the hotel but I'll confirm details as soon as I get them.
For all workshops we'll once again adopt our usual practise of car sharing as this has always worked very well in the past.
Please note that the new email address for all communication is: visualarttrips@rps.org
As usual, once this is published the take up will be very quick so don’t dilly dally, see you all in Cardiff
Mike & Sally