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Category: Creating Work

Introducing ‘The Autumnal Green Man’ and ‘The Denizens’.

Posted November 28, 2019November 28, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, The Denizens

Meet ‘The Autumnal Green Man’ from my new series ‘The Denizens’. Isn’t he a handsome chap? I’m biased of course since he’s my husband.

Detail from Step Into The Light

Step Into The Light

Posted November 21, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, The Ghost Project

Step Into The Light… the title says it all, or does it? Is there actually more to this image?

Detail from 'And Nature Returns'

Watching ‘And Nature Returns’

Posted November 14, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, The Ghost Project

You ever see something and it just takes your breath away? Stuns you into complete silence and you’re embarrassed to discover your jaw has dropped and been hanging open for goodness knows how long?

Faceless and Forgotten

Not as ‘Faceless and Forgotten’ as I’d have liked for this shoot…

Posted November 7, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, Life of an Artist, The Ghost Project

The most technically difficult shot of The Ghost Project and done under the scrutiny of a really rude tourist. You won’t believe what she said!

Detail from Offering from The Ghost Project

An ‘Offering’ to Nature, the Trees and the Ancestors

Posted October 31, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, The Ghost Project

It was a cold misty winters morning, I slept in, I had a short (really short) window of time to make this and even with all the planning, I’d forgotten to take into account the matches not working!

Threshold from The Ghost Project

Sitting on a ‘Threshold’

Posted October 24, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, Life of an Artist, The Ghost Project

So what happens when you mix a bunch of candles, some old World War 2 huts, nature, and a camera wielded by someone on a spiritual quest of sorts? Err… you get this! ‘Threshold’ is one of the few images from ‘The Ghost’ project where I used props, in this case, candles. It was also […]

Close up of 'The Ghost' in my first ghost shot

The Genesis of It All

Posted October 18, 2019October 16, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, Life of an Artist

Every massive life change has at least one pivotal moment in time you can point to and say ‘now that was significant’. This was one of mine…

Something Strange

Posted August 18, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, Videos

Sometimes you have to go looking for something, but sometimes it comes to find you…

Jewellery - Silver Pendant

Well I never – Victoriana…

Posted August 9, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, Life of an Artist

Well, I never thought I’d end up combining analogue photography and jewellery making as part of my art practice. Yes, honestly, making jewellery that people wear and ‘old fashioned’ analogue photography.

Thinking about ideas is serious business

A Touch of Inspiration and a Pinch of Creation

Posted July 18, 2019 mara72Leave a commentPosted in Creating Work, Life of an Artist

What inspires you? Where do you get your ideas from? Variations on those questions are familiar to all artists. So what is the genesis of creative work?

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