Despite giving myself more than twice the expected journey time to travel down from Bedford, I arrived more than a quarter of an hour late, and I desperately needed to pay a call of Nature myself, as I was in considerable pain, and had no time to grab my camera. I leapt from the car and hobbled to Bell House to gain some relief. I returned to the car and was fortunate enough to be allowed to park within the House’s grounds, where I wasted no time in getting the camera into shooting mode to make up for lost time, as guests were soon filling the space with conversation, greetings and spontaneous eagerness to feast their eyes on the fruits of the labours of those exhibiting.
I tried to capture the groups of friends enjoying their interest in the subject matter and also the gesticulations that accompanied much of the discussions taking place. You could certainly describe the atmosphere as humming. Although I was very much an outsider, in that I was known only to a handful of those present, I found myself involved willingly, and was able to mingle with ease, and made to feel at ease, which made it comparatively easy to capture the true atmosphere of the event, and I hope that comes across in the subsequent imagines within the gallery, when it appears on the blog. I hope that over the weekend those of the Public visiting enjoy the same welcoming warmth I found at the preview. I also hope the British weather does not dampen things.
I can only apologise for not getting the gallery up before the exhibition closed, but at least it is up as a record of the happenings at the Preview.
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