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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?
05:14 [unclear]
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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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