JAMIE Barnes and Colin Reynolds both share the spotlight with exciting new exhibitions at Farfield Mill.

Printmaker Jamie's Architypes and Aquatints runs in the Sedbergh arts and heritage centre's 2K Gallery until August 31.

His artwork is principally concerned with man-made structures such as houses, buildings, townscapes and structures in the landscape. This time Jamie shows new architectural prints as well as a small series of work depicting forests.

He says his interest in buildings stems from a childhood connection to architecture and drawing sparked by his dad who worked as an architectural draftsman and building inspector:

"My interest is partly technical and partly romantic," adds Kendal-based Jamie. "I'm interested in the lines, shapes and details of architecture and engineering but also in the human stories which are played out within buildings. In my work I often leave lights burning inside the houses I depict. Partly so I can imagine what's going on inside."

Over the last three years Jamie has focussed on the Trace Monotype printmaking technique. And he's also recently returned to etching after completing a residency in the printmaking department of the University of Central Lancashire.

“For me all printmaking comes from drawing, which I love to do. I enjoy taking my love of line drawing and transforming it through the magic of printmaking processes."

Meanwhile, photographer Colin's Seascapes is on show in Farfield's Dover Gallery also until August 31.

Seascapes is an ongoing project that started after fellow lensman Jonathan Chritchley introduced Colin to the work of Hiroshmi Sugimoto back in 2007. Colin developed the idea of a simplified seascape by incorporating a various

panning techniques to create a more abstract composition. As the work progressed then additional camera techniques were added to create the portfolio that's central to the exhibition.

Although shot mainly on digital the images were created in camera not in the software.

Colin - who has a gallery/studio on Kendal's Highgate - explains that the idea behind Seascapes was to take a simple image of the sea and sky and then look to blur the distinctions between the two elements of the image: "All the images use a slow shutter speed of 1/15th of a second through to several minutes. The variation in time allows for either distinct elements, that you see as horizontal bars, through to more surreal and painterly long exposure blurred elements in an image."

The photographs were shot in a variety of locations - California, Scotland, Northumberland and Cumbria plus many others.

Colin says that the project will continue and develop through the use of medium and large format film.

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