Sally Wakelin – Studies in Creativity
Paintings, drawings, sculpture and writing
The staircase in the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art – Ellis Williams Architects, is statisfyingly industrial with its embossed and perforated sheet steel. The only colour – a single wall on each landing painted in an identifying colour.
The entrance has unpainted rusting cladding.
Dull December weather in Canvey Island, Essex but this rust patterned concrete flood defence and steps is a pleasing arrangement of stripes and angles.
Canvey Island – the beach in winter
Reflections and shadows – blue to turns green and pink picking up reflected colours from the water and the deck – which is pink in the shade but almost orange in full sun. The canal at the Hepworth Wakefield.
Pink flourescent lighting in the cafe at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead looked particularly good on the white beard.
The Millenium Bridge across the Tyne at Gateshead – the arch lit with colours that slowly change through the spectrum. f/1.8 1/200 ISO 1600 50mm
Lindisfarne on a cold damp dull day – the local stone is defiantly pink on such a grey day
Straight railings casting their shadows on a rough stone wall.
Accidentally having the camera on the wrong setting caused camera shake during the long exposure but made an even more interesting image from this quilted copper-lined elevator in the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
And these over-sized wooden blinds were marvellous, maybe I’m addicted to parallel lines.
On a photo course in Italy with Frui , given free access to photograph the interior of a grand old house in the Abruzzo, I chose to concentrate on the juxtaposition of colour, the light was intense with deep shadows.
Just about to eat the last peice of orange melon, pink lipstick – perfect .
I am attracted by juxtapositions of colour – thay can make all the difference to how you see something.
A cliché perhaps but lovely none the less, the first red leaves of Autumn in the lakes north of Toronto.
These vibrant colours were an unexpected delight contrasting against the black polished marble of a downtown Toronto office building, snatched from the car whilst at a stop light.
Four lanes of traffic waiting to set off from the lights on a dull day – the colours really saurated. I wish I’d had time to compose the shot better and include more of the orange sign pointing across the road. Each vehicle, engine revving, almost perfectly lined up to lead the eye, has its own colour point, linking up with the coloured flags on the facia of the building and then the verdigris on the roof.
The Toronto taxi colours seem to be designed to match the surroundings, the Autumn leaves and the red brick and verdigris copper roof of one of the few Victorian bulidings left in the downtown area, all set against the tall grey skyscrapers behind..
Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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