Ian Burdall Photography: March 2011

Sunday, 6 March 2011

For years Saltaire Arts trail I am concidering using a few topics, one of which is plants and flowers. I am finding myself sucked in by sad looking fake flowers and overgrown areas of wasteland. Here are a few that I may be showing

Saturday, 5 March 2011

Latest work from Staithes and the NE Coast

These are from a recent visit to the coast. I found some amazing places where men inhabit sheds and boats rot in long abandoned silt filled ports. The boy in the picture is my son Charley looking magnificent in Vladivostok on Tees.

Saltaire Arts Trail 2011

I've been selected for this year's arts trail!

About me

Saltaire based photographer, Ian Burdall has been fascinated by photography since he was a child when he used to take photos of the places he visited as a family. “I used my Dad's camera to take pictures of places as they were reflected in the curved chrome (well-polished) hub-caps of his car.“

Over time he has become increasingly drawn to abstractions; to colour, blocks and blocks of colour; lines and shapes. Trying to get to the things that pictures are built from; the essential parts. “I found that I was producing colour saturated shapes, good examples of which can be seen in the images of things in extreme close-up that I have produced. My interest has developed into trying to get a similar effect of abstraction to that achieved by artists I admire, such as Rothko.”