Busy times in Feb...

The start of the year proved to be rather busy, so there hasn't been much in the way of updates lately.  So where to begin?

Back before Christmas saw the start of a project for Ben to track down and photograph some of the more obscure preserved industrial locomotives, to try and get some pics to be published.  First stop was this preserved Ruston 48ds in Liverpool not long before Christmas.  The lighting conditions earlier in the day were a bit flat, but later in the night on the way home the conditions were a tad more dramatic.

First bite, Rail Express Magazine for March- just a little picture, and the only taker for the night shoot, but a second shoot of a similar loco should be seeing one, possibly two publications in different magazines in the near future.

We had an early anniversary present with a trip to Carlisle and back by steam-hauled excursion, again more on that in a future post as it has also led to some published work.

The "Observe to Preserve" project has finished shooting, certainly for the time being, and hasn't been shown anywhere yet as an exhibited project, however...

...an article on the background fluff and the making of the railcar model has appeared in Garden Rail magazine for March, Ben's first published full-article.

Exhibition-wise, Ben's show is still at the Bowery, and Amy got a ceramic piece into the Bradford Open 2019 show at Cartwright Hall.

It's a rather smaller show than in some previous years, and frankly a bit heavy on the fine-art/painting side of things for our usual work, but this marks the fourth in a row of these two-yearly shows that we've got something in between us.

As regards other exhibitions, we've got entries pending for another open call, and two more we're each entering work for in the next month so plenty happening on that front.

Finally for now, the Jabberwock project has reared it's mechanical head again; the decent weather (the dying spasms of the climate-change-addled planet had at least one handy benefit) meant a proper outdoor shoot could be done with the new model Ben has been working on.  This is part of a wider Steampunk "Alice in Wonderland" body of work Ben is doing, sparked by that sculpture he did for the show at Rydal Hall a couple of years ago.

So that's it for the time being; more will follow on some of our ongoing projects, some Fine Art work from Amy, some more sculpture and published railway photography from Ben, and some more exhibitions on the way with a bit of luck...