Bridgnorth Arts Trail is a hit with the crowds.

Shropshire Star

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]

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