Dave Green

With 13 years of full-time photography teaching behind him Dave chose the life of an artist in North Devon, with occasional part-time teaching and photographic workshops to supplement his career. His current work is an exploration of the North Devon coast. His study is of the hidden coast found only through a vertiginous climb down a cliff path or by leaving the sandy beach and trekking over seaweed strewn boulders at low tide. This is a wild coast, unpopulated by holiday-makers, the domain of seagulls that can make you feel quite unwelcome. It is also an historic coast where millions of years can be seen in the layers of strata of an eroded cliff face and the more recent past can be found in smooth rusting ship parts, in memorial of hundreds of wrecks, littering the rocky shore.

Dave has embraced the new digital medium and challenged it to assist with the documenting of what is seen at the back of a cave. To most, the inside of a cave is black and the bright surface world is pictured through a heavy dark frame; but here we see the glorious true colour and texture from the deepest blacks to the brightest highlights in this extremely high contrast scene.

Dave works regularly for local F.E. colleges and for arts organisations, Beaford Arts, Bideford Folk Festival, The Plough, Wren Music, BBC Blast as a photographer or a workshop leader. Workshops, which can be 1:1 or small group, include; An introduction to your digital camera, Landscape photography, Making sun prints and photograms, Introduction to imaging software, Photographing your artwork for presentation and promotion and Pin-hole photography.

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