"Bath & Wessex Fine Art and Photography Gallery"

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Lunchtime Talk - The Art Of Photography - 01/05/08	Dave~B	1	5 weeks ago
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Thanks and happy new year to all contributors to 'Bath & Wessex fine art and photography'.	David Lewis-Baker	4	5 months ago
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About "Bath & Wessex Fine Art and Photography Gallery"

SCOPE OF THE GROUP:

This group is for works of fine art and serious photography created by those working in, or inspired by, the ancient City of Bath and its surrounding Wessex counties. Works by members of this group range from landscapes, cityscapes, portraits and figurative works, through to pure abstracts and conceptual works, the common element being their fine art/photography characteristics and that they were created in Bath/Wessex and/or inspired by the city or locations/events elsewhere in the Wessex region.

WHY BATH:

Aside from the fact that it was founded in Bath, the city is acknowledged internationally for its scenic beauty, architectural and historic importance. It is also set in an area of outstanding natural beauty and therefore attracts talented artists and photographers to live and work here. In addition, it draws artists, photographers and other creative individuals from all over the UK and the rest of the world to visit, hence the basis for locating such a group in Bath.

DEFINING WESSEX:

At various times the title 'Wessex' has included Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Hampshire & Isle of White, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. Although briefly, under the Danish Viking king Cnut (post c1016), the Earldom of Wessex comprised all of England south of the Thames.

Thomas Hardy also used a fictionalised south-west as a setting for many of his novels, reviving the term Wessex for southwest England. He gave the counties the following fictionalised names: Berkshire = North Wessex; Devon = Lower Wessex; Dorset = South Wessex; Hampshire = Upper Wessex; Somerset = Outer Wessex; Wiltshire = Mid-Wessex. Neighbouring Cornwall was described as Off-Wessex or Lyonesse.

This group adopts a modern definition of the historic region of Wessex, comprising Gloucestershire & the Cotswolds, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset and Devon.

THE FOUNDER:

David Lewis-Baker is the founder and administrator of the BFAPG and a Bath-based new media artist and photographer and a member of the Bath Area network for Artists 'BANA'

DISCUSSION THREADS:

The discussion arena of the site is intended to provide an on-line cyber café resource to discuss philosophical and practical matters of common interest to artists and fine art photographers in the Bath & Wessex area. Please only introduce topics which will be of interest to members.

JOINING THE GROUP:

Membership of the group is by invitation only via the 'Join the Group' link from this page." This is to preserve the quality of the group which is not intended for standard holiday photographs, or other 'snaps'. The group includes an administrator and moderators who are empowerd to remove works they think are innappropriate for inclusion in the B&WFAPG pool.

Please take a look at the works in the Group pool and if you would like to join please set up your own flickr site (free with up to 100mb of images) and then apply to join the BFAPG. If you do decide to join please reserve the group for your highest qulity shots.

SEARCHING FOR SPECIFIC WORKS WITHIN THE GROUP:

If you wish to pull out all the works in the group which are connected to a specific subject - say the Royal Crescent, use the search within the Group box marked (search this group's pool) on the top right and insert suitable words 'Bath' & 'Royal Crescent' and the system will generate a databased of these images on screen.

BATH IN TIME:

For an excellent digital archive of historical images of Bath go to www.bathintime.co.uk - Images of Bath Online

BRISTOL:

Bristol has a number of flickr groups devoted to it especially www.flickr.com/groups/bristol/ and this is the proper repository for such works, but the BFAPG accepts both images and members from the Bristol area.

Please mark any image seen in the group pool with

Seen in:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/bath_fine_arts_and_photography/
">Bath & Wessex Fine Art and Photography Gallery</a>


David Lewis-Baker
Lower Camden
Bath
6th September 2007

My Art Web Sites:

www.yessy.com/DavidBaker/

www.flickr.com/people/david_lewis_baker_arts/

I also founded and administer these flickr groups:

www.flickr.com/groups/uk_art_and_artists/

www.flickr.com/uk_fine_art_photographic_landscapes/

www.flickr.com/groups/musicians_portraits/

www.flickr.com/groups/fine_art_portraits/

www.flickr.com/groups/war_and_memory/

www.flickr.com/groups/social_and_political_collages/