RAFFLE
You may have noticed the striking image that decorates many of our web pages.
It is 'Depths' by the Canadian photographer Clare Ross.
A festival friend has donated a signed limited-edition archival print of this beautiful picture to be raffled during the festival. It will be on display at our launch party and all the events, and the prize-draw will be made at the reception after our closing concert.
Tickets are £1 a strip or 6 for £5.
Clare Ross is a Canadian artist whose imaginative artwork has sold internationally and has received numerous awards. Often juried into notable Canadian exhibitions including at the The Ontario Society of Artists, The Society of Canadian Artists, and The Aird Gallery, she seeks to inspire conversations about beauty, the environment and our place in it. Her limited-edition photographs are meant for the fine art connoisseur. Photographs are printed on archival watercolour paper with archival inks, signed, dated, and numbered.
"Depths", 2009, 2/20: archival photographic print, first exhibited in London in 2009.
Clare writes: “‘Depths’ (later retitled ‘Water Jewels’), is one of the photographs I took on my first art trip to Newfoundland in 2008. I was on the northern most tip of the province, in a place called Quirpon Island, which extends into Iceberg Alley, a stretch of water in the Atlantic that threads its way between Greenland and Newfoundland, Canada. The light was dull, so I was exploring the water's edge when a ray of sun reached around from behind a cloud and through the water at my feet, revealing a mirage like view of colour and shape through refracted light. Of course I had my camera and without breathing, sure it would disappear, I focussed on what I could see and I took the shot, just one photograph, and then it was gone. Despite returning time and time again to the same place, I never saw those jewels again, but I have this photograph, which I think is symbolic on many levels.”