Forever and Forever
Beautiful Words by J.L. Carr
“Ah, those days... for many years afterwards their happiness haunted me. Sometimes, listening to music, I drift back and nothing has changed. The long end of summer. Day after day of warm weather, voices calling as night came on and lighted windows pricked the darkness and, at day-break, the murmur of corn and the warm smell of fields ripe for harvest."
“Deep red hollyhocks pressed against the limestone wall and velvet butterflies flopped lazily from flower to flower. It was Tennyson weather, drowsy, warm, unnaturally still.”
1. The Long White Cloud
After a lifetime of making work in the South West of England, Jem Southam made his first overseas trip in 2018 to New Zealand to produce a body of work called ‘The Long White Cloud’. In this video, the artist discusses the images he took while on the six-week journey to document the landscapes of both the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
The photographs show his continued fascination with the subtleties of c…