Claire Delaney, artist, illustrator and teacher at work in her studio. Image: Su Leslie, 2018
Another session photographing my friend Claire‘s studio. She was teaching a class, but until I have permission from the women attending to post images of them, here are a few of Claire and the minutiae of the studio.
Five Minutes of Random (the #RegularRandom challenge) is hosted by Desley Jane at Musings of a Frequently Flying Scientist.
If you’d like to join in:
- choose a subject or a scene
- spend five minutes photographing it – no more!
- try to see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it
- tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to Desley’s post
- have fun!
Zimmerbitch 
The bits shown do make her seem a good artist and the studio intriguing–
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So interesting that the person is in black & white, whilst the art uses colour.
Might I ask how you decided? I think I understand what might have motivated ~ to emphasise the art, which is application of colour so should be in colour. Am just curious!
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There were a few factors. Claire and I had talked about producing monochrome portraits for her, and it helped that she was wearing black and working on a fairly monochrome portrait. But there is lots of colour in the studio, which it would have been a shame to miss.
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Ah! Thank you so much for the additional background. Insightful, gentle & intelligent thought-turned-photos, as always!
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Thank you 🙏
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Great variety in a 5 minute slot! And love your use of monochrome and colour by turns
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Thank you 🙏
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I take about 10 minutes of photos every day for one reason or another. I posted them already, so I guess next time 🙂
Some beautiful portraits here, both in color and black & white.
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😀 I always intend to shoot photos every day, but more often than not, don’t, so I like challenges, which encourage me to think about, and shoot something. I didn’t quite follow the brief on this one, not focusing on a single stationary subject.
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Neat studio, mine is beginning to come together.
Leslie
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That’s great Leslie. I can really see how ha one good space to work in helps creativity 😀
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It makes a big difference, Su.
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Wonderful shots. I like the mix of colour and B&W and the varied DOF you have used.
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Thanks Jude 😀
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Her smile in that last shot says it all. She loves what she’s doing.
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She does! Her classes become like an art club, with women going germ after term. She’s made the studio not only a creative space, but a safe one where people feel they can take creative risks and expose their vulnerabilities.
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That’s what any good teacher should do. If people are afraid to make mistakes—whether in kindergarten, law school, or art class—they will never learn effectively.
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True. And I’ve watched as many so-called teachers have damaged, if not destroyed, the confidence of children (I’m thinking the boy-child and his friends who stopped wanting to make art because “they were no good at it.” Grrr.
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Uch. That brings back some painful memories of what I’ve seen teachers do—to me and to others. 😦
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I guess all I can do is agree with the comments already posted. Nicely done, Su.
janet
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Wonderful shots. Love your work Su. What a beautiful place to photograph. I’d love to do that.
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Thank you. It is a fantastic place to photograph. In fact is a great place just to hang out. 😀
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Great shots, Su! It’s awesome seeing your friend at work in her natural environment. 😊 Especially interesting to see her works in progress and the colours she’s using. Will she use your pictures for her homepage? She definitely should! 😊 xxxxxxxx
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Thank you. Claire’s really rewarding to photograph and I always love being in the studio.
It’s interesting that her colour palette has changed a bit lately. She used to work in dark earth tones and phthalo turquoise, then had a long phase of using very pale, almost pastel tones. Now she’s doing work that is almost monochrome, but with the deep turquoise shades in some work too. I am liking this very much (I wasn’t crazy about the pastel phase).
She’s posting some of the shots on her social media accounts, and we’ll go through them all at the end of the project and decide which will go on the website, etc. xxxxxx
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My favourite photo is the one with the banana. It is out of context and is therefore striking to my eye. Love it 🙂
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