At the end of January Oxmarket will welcome Kate Lloyd to the Wilson Gallery for an exhibition of photography. For Kate photography was a passion expressed rather late in her life. Kate trained with a number of expert photographers, including most recently Jonathan Chritchley and Valda Bailey. With Jonathan Kate travelled quite extensively, finding the lesser known parts of Venice, and the West Coast of France, both of which are featured in this exhibition. With Valda Bailey she gained experience in the techniques of abstraction, and discovered a different vision and photographic capabilities she didn’t know were possible.

Water, reflections in water and associated subjects, like boats and buildings have become a major theme in Kate’s work. As Kate loves to travel this means she has fallen completely in love with certain places. An overnight gondola park in Venice, a boat yard in France, where the fabric of the boats is steadily decaying, even the lesser known, seriously neglected parts of a city or village can feature as her favourite subjects.

Kate is an abstract photographer using Multiple Exposure (ME) and Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) to create different versions of a subject. These layers are then blended, drawing out colours that are hidden in the material, and not seen with the naked eye.

For those who know, or have visited Venice, the exhibition will perhaps resurrect memories of their visits. We all enjoy pictures of places we know. Kate feels that now that mobile phones are almost universal many people regard themselves as photographers and, perhaps consequently, rate the medium as less interesting, and less valuable than other artistic techniques. Kate would like people to come away with a sense of the validity of Fine Art Photography as an artistic medium, and an awareness that there is much normally hidden to the naked eye, or which is unnoticed.

Kate would like the visitors to realise that such aspects of life and art can nevertheless be interesting, evocative and even emotional.