A slightly smaller meeting than usual but still a dozen showing work. The theme ‘coast’ brought a selection of beach and harbour scenes from many parts of the world, and a tribute to Bill Brandt’s sculptural nudes on the shore. Two more photographers had also gravitated to the Sussex coast, one finding colours and land-forms in an expansive view over Cuckmere Haven that prompted thoughts of Ravilious and Nash. Wilder shores of Northumberland and the Farne Islands brought kittiwakes, seals, puffins and guillemots; Cornwall close-ups of flowers on the coast path near St Ives given the Tintype app treatment. And then a claim that the lower Thames is not a river but an arm of the sea, so X-pan images of shipping, giant cranes and the North Kent marshes.

Janet Nabney

Margate Sucks by Chris Burrows

Steve Jones

Simon Butcher

Anna Lerner

Ingrid Newton from the series Coastal Flower Portraits

Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday 26th July at 18.45 at the usual venue – The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queens Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT. The theme will be Own Projects – anything you are currently working on or planning. Please bring along any work you wish to share on a memory stick or in print or book form. Please note there is no meeting in August.
Advance notice for September: Shambolic