Bridgnorth Arts Trail is a hit with the crowds.
The Bridgnorth open house arts trail was on this weekend and with the dry weather the numbers were really rather good this year. Its an opportunity to meet artists and to also take a peep into those lovely historic houses we all love in the town.
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00:14 Hello ladies, how you doing?
00:16 Hello.
00:18 Linda this is your lovely cottage I believe.
00:20 It is indeed. What is it like to have a load of
00:22 strangers just wandering in like me?
00:24 Wonderful. Wonderful, great stuff.
00:26 Well I shall tap your door again then.
00:28 And Josephine you were displaying
00:30 some of your work. Yes I am, yes.
00:32 So you are a black country girl at heart,
00:34 a cosy girl. I am.
00:36 And what do we call? I am a shop show girl really.
00:38 Yeah, yeah. And is this
00:40 needle craft, what do we call it?
00:42 Weaving. Weaving. Yes.
00:44 Ah, fantastic. And is this some of your
00:46 creatives behind your...
00:48 Yes, yes. Let's come round
00:50 and have a look then.
00:52 So how long have you been involved in
00:54 this kind of work then?
00:56 Oh, quite a few years now, about eight
00:58 years. Yeah. But I've recently
01:00 got a studio at Ruskin Glass
01:02 Centre in Stourbridge. Oh yeah, we know Ruskin
01:04 Glass, yeah, yeah. Yes. Cool.
01:06 So how's it been going
01:08 then today Linda? Have you had many through the door?
01:10 Um, about 130
01:12 so far. Yeah, that's
01:14 good going isn't it, yeah?
01:16 162 yesterday.
01:18 Wow, okay. I guess the weather
01:20 helps doesn't it? You know it keeps
01:22 people coming in and flowing, yeah.
01:24 Cool. And what a perfect
01:26 time to be losing your voice Linda.
01:28 [Laughs]
01:30 Right, well I'll leave you to it
01:32 ladies, thank you.
01:34 [Indistinct chatter]
01:36 I don't know that
01:38 I've bought it, it
01:40 came up in a house sale
01:42 and it was the interior
01:44 of a house and that
01:46 I thought
01:48 it should have been in a specialised sculpture
01:50 sale but it didn't.
01:52 [Indistinct chatter]
01:54 Yeah.
01:56 Yeah.
01:58 How are you folks? We're very well
02:00 and you? I'm good, yeah I'm good thank you.
02:02 So, um, whose house is this?
02:04 I presume because you're looking at home.
02:06 What's your name sir? Tim Bingham.
02:08 Tim Bingham, so you're a Bridge North man?
02:10 Yes, I'm born in Bridge North.
02:12 Cool, and these are your
02:14 paintings then Jim? Yes. Yeah.
02:16 And who've we got here madam, what's your name? My name's Liz.
02:18 Where you from Liz? Bridge North, I live in Bridge North.
02:20 Ah, right, cool.
02:22 It's the art strategy, it's been, happened
02:24 before hasn't it, it's an annual event? Yeah, I think it's been
02:26 going for about ten years. Yeah, yeah.
02:28 What do you think of it Liz, of what you've seen? Oh, it's brilliant and it seems to
02:30 have grown, it seems to have grown year on year.
02:32 Yeah, yeah. I think it's really good.
02:34 Cool, and he's quite a talented man, isn't he
02:36 by the looks of it, this, er, well there you go.
02:38 Well only yesterday I heard your name.
02:40 Oh, thank you. And somebody was saying
02:42 so we had to come. Oh, perfect.
02:44 That's nice to learn. Cool.
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03:08 Who's the, who's the
03:10 photographer then? Is that you sir?
03:12 Yeah, that's me. Right, what's your name sir?
03:14 Er, Phil Rangstaff.
03:16 Phil, I'll snuggle you in while you're pictures, I'll come round this side of you.
03:18 Because as a photographer you'll know it's better
03:20 with that window open.
03:22 So, have you taken part in the
03:24 Bridge North Arts Trail before? Yeah, this is
03:26 about my fifth time I think.
03:28 See, from what I gather, it's,
03:30 this year's been a particularly good attendance.
03:32 It seems to be getting bigger and better this event. Yeah, we've had a lot of people
03:34 coming through here. I've been trying to keep a count
03:36 of how many people. We've had about 250
03:38 each day. So it's been going pretty well I think.
03:40 So you're a Shrewsbury man?
03:42 I live there now, yes.
03:44 Not from there originally. Where are you from originally?
03:46 Er, Manchester way. So how did
03:48 you discover Shropshire then?
03:50 I came here through work originally.
03:52 Moved through by work and love it around here
03:54 basically. Fairly lovely there.
03:56 Shrewsbury's a, I've lived there the most
03:58 time in my life.
04:00 Yeah. So your photography, just talk
04:02 us through it then. Travel photography, is that your
04:04 gig sort of thing? Er, not really no.
04:06 I think the common theme in my photography
04:08 really is sort of shape, pattern and form.
04:10 So, most of the photographs I've probably
04:12 taken when we're on holiday
04:14 places but, I wouldn't
04:16 describe myself as a travel photographer. It's more
04:18 about interest in patterns
04:20 and shapes and
04:22 connections between things really.
04:24 Yeah. So are you a pain on holiday?
04:26 Do you have to keep stopping your wife and saying
04:28 "Hang on, I've seen something here" and...
04:30 If you asked my wife she would definitely say I was a pain.
04:32 I have a habit of disappearing
04:34 because she'll be walking and I've stopped and
04:36 she doesn't realise I've stopped.
04:38 Any particular favourite piece that you've got here
04:40 today or?
04:42 Well, I think these two probably are my favourites.
04:44 Yeah. Just talk us through
04:46 where have these taken at?
04:48 So this one is the
04:50 Ferris wheel in the Place de la
04:52 Concorde in Paris taken at night.
04:54 Wow. I don't use
04:56 Photoshop at all so the photographs are all
04:58 as taken. That's crazy.
05:00 This is inside
05:02 an Anthony Gaudi building in
05:04 Barcelona called the Casabaccio.
05:06 Yeah. And again it's the sort
05:08 of shapes, the curves that particularly
05:10 appeal to me. Yeah.
05:12 Why is it in the garden?
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05:40 Hello folks, how you doing?
05:54 Who's beautiful garden
05:56 is this? That's mine. That'll be yours
05:58 sir. It's a shame that on video you don't
06:00 pick up the smell of the roses but they smell
06:02 gorgeous in here.
06:04 We're very fortunate.
06:06 The weather's turned
06:08 just nice.
06:10 Yeah, it's behaving isn't it?
06:12 And Caroline you're one of the artists
06:14 featured here. I am one of the artists, yes.
06:16 This is one of your beautiful little pieces.
06:18 This is one of my primitive
06:20 horses. Gorgeous.
06:22 And I have a couple
06:24 of other ones inside.
06:26 And this is some of your work we've got displayed
06:28 here in the garden isn't it? Yes.
06:30 Some pieces beside us here.
06:32 And further down there which work
06:34 perfectly in this lovely garden.
06:36 They do don't they? They work a treat with the flowers.
06:38 Is that kind of the inspiration for the design?
06:40 Is the floral elements to it?
06:42 I'm seeing those ones down the bottom
06:44 I'm thinking calla lily flowers on the top.
06:46 Yes, yes.
06:48 They're very much like that.
06:50 And what's it like to have this
06:52 artwork displayed in your garden?
06:54 Is it giving you new ideas for additions?
06:56 [laughter]
06:58 Caroline's hoping so.
07:00 Well, it's unfair really
07:02 because we had these
07:04 placed before the exhibition
07:06 opened and my wife
07:08 was the first buyer.
07:10 [laughter]