Compton Verney – no 2

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Guthlac
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Compton Verney

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Guthlac
Had a great day at Compton Verney. The main exhibition was a bit hit miss, the early renaissance paintings were incredible, especially the Titian’s, but the later baroque works were not so impressive. Nonetheless a good exhibition if not as good of some of he exhibitions I’ve seen there.

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Sometimes I just dispare

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Guthlac

So it was a simply glorious day today, the sun was out, wind was pleasantly refreshing what better conditions could there be for a walk in the country? Well not much of a walk as I’m still not 100% but getting a lot better, but I went a walk this afternoon through some of the oldest human landscapes in Leicestershire/Lincolnshire – the Drift at Wyville. This is also a site of scientific interest. In short it is a wonderful to take a leisurely. That, of course, is not how some of our more corrupt members of society see it. No they see it as a place to fly tip their rubbish, or discarded proceeds of crime. So not only was there a toilet cistern but the plastic insulation from copper wire which, I suspect, had been stolen from the local railway line. Oh aren’t we a wonderful people!

Anyway, if you can get pass the rubbish it really is a fascinating part of the world to explore with bronze age barrows, ancient track ways and the enigmatically named ‘King Lud’s Entrenchment’. Perhaps not Salisbury Plain but nonetheless captivating.

Simon Marchini
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Another day another cup of coffee

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Guthlac

Well I’ve just taken my new coffee bean grinder out for its first test run and I have to say I’m loving it. Not only does the coffee taste wonderful but the kitchen has a lovely aroma of coffee. Yum Yum.

Simon Marchini
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Gregorian Chant

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Guthlac

This is hardly a news at all but I do find a bit of Gregorian Chant is very rewarding when painting.

Simon Marchini
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Cold Case Photography

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Guthlac

Deep time seems to be seeping through me. I revisited the first photographs I made for this project some two and half years ago and quite frankly they were just not good enough. They certainly didn’t fit with the images I made yesterday so I reworked the images and came up with these. The interesting things is that these were captured with my old Canon G10 which demonstrates that by the Autumn of 2010 I had all but given up with all my heavy camera gear and moved in a total different creative direction. The image quality is really quite good but you can still see the difference with the G1x, which is hardly surprising, but at least they now have the same look and feel going forward.

Simon Marchini
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Out and About – part 2

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Guthlac

This is the second batch of photographs made in and around the Charnwood Hills

Simon Marchini
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Out and About

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Guthlac

Having decided to try and muscle my way through the viral mishaps I’m currently suffering I went out to our local ‘mountains’ to make some images. I’m not sure it was the best thing to do, as far as the ‘mishaps’ are concerned, as I feel a bit knackered now but it was nice to be out in the fresh air making some photographs.

As to the photographs these are part of a long running project I’ve called ‘Deep Time’. I’m interested in just how do you capture geological time on a photograph. I’m not sure I’ve come up with an answer yet but I’ve only been thinking about this for around two years now so not surprising I’m still up in the air about this.

Those of you who don’t know my local ‘mountains’ are the Pre Cambrian Charnwood Hills which form some of the oldest rocks anywhere on earth. They clock in at around 560 million years of age, pretty old. To find rocks which are much older you have to go to the island of Lewis or Greenland. These are much older and they clock in at over 3 billion years old. I may visit Lewis but not Greenland.

Another aspects of this project is the Pre Cambrian life forms which were named after the first documented example of this life form Charnia, because it was found in the Charnwood Hills.

Enough Geological information for one day. I think I’ll go and have a lie down to recover. Good day but tiring.

Simon Marchini
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Geting a grip

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Guthlac

After reading the last blog entry I had had enough and so I’ve forced myself to do some work and this is the result…the start of a painting of a face that has haunted me for a while. Amazing what you can do with a bit of a kick up the bum.

Simon Marchini
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Virus Virus oh how I love you virus!

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Guthlac

Day four and I fell shit. Well actually I just feel totally washed out with no real energy. Now I’ve been through this before so I know, in time, things will get back to normal. It’s just that when you’re going through these periods you really want to do things but somehow there is no energy there to do anything. Only a week ago I was full of energy but now I’ve crashed. So much for enjoying spring!

Simon Marchini
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