20 - 25 November 2007

Informal Gallery Talk: 12 noon on Thursday 22 November

Musical Collaboration with Sam Richards: 7pm on Friday 23 November. Tickets £4

Maureen Douglas-Green's photography represents a search for the details and harmonies in nature that might so easily be missed: a perfect split second's situation captured through the camera lens.

The subleties of water, light and pattern in nature all sing out in Maureen's photographic images, encouraging the viewer to look more closely at these images of Devon, Cornwall, and Brittany and the Gironde in France.

'I tend not to take an image if I feel that someone else could take exactly the same picture; there has to be something different about it that makes others feel that they wish that they had seen and captured what I've seen.'

Maureen’s desire is that those who experience her work should look and truly see for themselves just how amazing the world around them and its inhabitants are.

Although Maureen now uses exclusively digital cameras, she has little interest in manipulating the image after the crucial 'split second', and likes to feel that the even the camera should not get in the way of a good image.

All of the photographs are limited editions of no more than 5, and many are unique prints.

Photographs will be available framed in sizes ranging from 24x20" to 14x7". There will also be a wide range of unframed work available.

Born into a highly creative family, it's no surprise that Maureen has combined art and music in her career of recent years, and she has worked, performed and exhibited alongside her brother, Terry Riley, the internationally known vessel flute maker.

Ill health forced a reluctant early retirement from Maureen's rewarding career in teaching, but she has wasted no opportunity in finding new avenues in her creative work, and she is now also a highly regarded life model.

In the late 1990s, Maureen and her husband bought a 32 acre nature reserve at Quoditch Moor, one of the few Culm grassland safe breeding habitats of  several increasingly rare species of butterfly. Maureen's interest in photography now had a necessary outlet - recording the development and detail of the nature reserve.

Similarly, Maureen's career as a life model led seamlessly to a move to the 'other side of the camera', and her portfolio includes a number of sensitive nude studies. Keen to develop this theme, she feels that working with the nude directly in the landscape adds another dimension to her work, which the composer Sam Richards has focused on in his musical response to her work.

In Between the Salt Water and the Sea Strand, Sam has produced  'an unco-ordinated soundtrack' to over half and hour's worth of Maureen's visual images of the figure in the local coastal landscape. It will be played by Half Moon Assemblage - New York singer-songwriter-guitarist Michael Bassett, trumpet and electronics specialist Tim Sayer, violinist El Davies, and composer and pianist Lona Kozik.

A second piece, On and On and Further On, was started by Sam during a two month stay in Torbay Hospital in the summer of 2006. Perhaps appropriately, it is a psycho-musical excursion into strange places. Maureen’s photographs for this piece concentrate on the piano as well as some of Sam’s intriguing visual scores. With a soundtrack composed by Sam and realised by Maureen’s husband, sound engineer Richard, Sam and Lona will be the live performers in this event on Friday 23 November.

For tickets please call Maureen on 01752 777718

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