Salford Quays - Pier 8 - April 2013

While on a week-long Art Therapy course at The Lowry Centre in April 2013, I paid to park in someone’s drive and took the fifteen minute walk alongside the rush hour traffic.  Part of my journey was along the water’s edge of Pier 8, Salford Quays.  After the noise and bustle of the motorway and city centre roads, it was such bliss to enter the quays.  I never thought it could be so peaceful in a city centre before.  The residents of the private apartments must enjoy relative calm, and the convenience of being close to their work.  The weather was still and clear and I just drifted along.  I was enjoying myself so much and looking forward to the art therapy classes. 

The water was still and the reflections so bright, that I reached for my iPhone.  I have always carried a camera in my handbag; ready to capture an unexpected shot.  I have only ever had snap happy types of cameras, which have served me well over the years.  Since the advent of the phone camera and in particular the smart phones, I have been able to take much better quality photographs.  I fired away and took a selection of photographs; of which I chose some for this exhibition.

 

The next day and the weather had changed.  It had been raining, the wind had picked up and all the distance reflections had disappeared.  However, while I was passing under a bridge I noticed the water dropping of the bridge into the quay, making those lovely concentric circles we all love to watch.  Again out came my iPhone and away I went snap happy.  Many of the images in this exhibition are parts of the photographs I took, cropped and expanded and tweaked using the basic tools; nothing fancy.

I hope you enjoy my exhibition and tell you friends all about it.  Please let me know if you would like to purchase any of the works.  I can have them printed onto canvas in a variety of sizes, or printed, mounted and framed.  I now have some canvas' and framed prints at my studio at Victoria Mill, Congleton, so come along to view at your leisure. 

I will be exhibiting at Macclesfield Library in April 2014, so watch out for that.