BLACK FRIDAY SALE - 40% off ALL artwork for one day only - Friday 26th November

  I am offering a huge SALE on my artwork for one day only.  That being TODAY only.  I am offering a huge discount of 40% off all artwork.  Please see my ETSY shop below and view my new prices in my announcement at the top of my ETSY shop.

www.francesphotography.etsy.com

Thank you so much and I look forward to your orders.  Just let me know which image you are interested in and I will set up the order for you on Etsy.  Check out my link above.

Best,
Frances

Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2010

Thrilled to let you know that I got an Honorable Mention for the Gala Awards of the Julia Margaret Cameraon Awards for my piece The Silence.  A photography competition for women only and for which most of the entry fees go to Save the Children.  So thrilled to have been chosen as one of the awardees!

Made it to the Front Page of Etsy Again!

http://www.craftcult.com/archives/fp/fp_11772.jpg

Made it to the Front Page of Etsy again with Ancient Waters!

View an Etsy Front Page Treasury List - The Vault on Craft Cult

Made it to the Front Page of ETSY again!

View an Etsy Front Page Treasury List - The Vault on Craft Cult

I made it to the FRONT PAGE of ETSY today!!

I HAVE BEEN FEATURED AGAIN!

I have been featured by writer, painter, chinese brush painter, philosopher, taoist Ren Adams.  Check out her blog below under Superstar Sunday:
http://www.plasticpumpkin.wordpress.com/


Gorgeously kind article and she has a WONDERFUL BOG so do check it out also!


Happy Weekends to all!


Frances

'Announcement of Finalists of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award'

'Announcement of Finalists of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award'

I am a finalist for the 2010 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards!

I am so thrilled to announce that I am a finalist for the 2010 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards with one of my pieces "The Silence".  Jurors include:  Mary Ellen Mark, Alessandro Sanguinetti, Olivia Arthur, Rosanna Checchi, Carol McCusker, Vanessa Winship and Kim Weston.

The winners and honorable mentions will be announced at the end of June!

Just thrilling news that made my already most beautiful mother's day ever, the VERY BEST.

Frances X

My photography has been featured!

My photography has been featured on the following blog:

www.etsyprojectembrace.blogspot.com


It is a very moving article and I am honored that my work was so inspiring to accompany her article.  The article is entitled "A question of faith".

Thank you so much!
Frances x

New Abstract Landscape Photography

Blue Expanse 2010

Blue Expanse takes me to places that are endless, it is about flight, strength and contemplation.  It is about independence and possibility.

Untitled No: 128

Untitled No:  128 is totally inspiring for me.  It is a piece that symbolises Inspiration.

Summer Dusk II

Summer Dusk II is a sweet image that evokes memories of my interpretations of the summer beaches, young families in the shallow tidal inlets and innocence.

Contained. 2010

Contained is such a soothing piece for me. It is the definition of containment, control.  I do not mean control in a contolling way but in a strong, self supporting and trusting way.  The colors are balanced and the fan to the right is a symbolic of a huge change in someone's life, a "death" but after this happening a renewal and a reemergence takes place that brings forth hope and change for the better.

Please view more new images that are mainly listed at the top of my Etsy shop.http://www.francesphotography.etsy.com/

I HAVE BEEN FEATURED!

I am honoured to have been featured by Gilliauna Davis in her lovely blog.  She is incredibly enthusiastic and kind about my work.  It made my day even better than it already was!!  Do take a look........

http://gilliauna.blogspot.com


Thank you Gilliauna!

Best wishes
Frances

FEATURED ARTISTS ON Lovely Clusters

Here is the link to some artists' amazing works featured TODAY on LOVELY CLUSTERS:

http://lovelyclusters.com/curatedclusters.html

Have a beautiful day!

frances

New Works!

Some new works that I must post here now before they are no longer considered new!  I have become exeedingly excited about a new piece that is a branch off my normal process.  The piece is called "Phoenix Rising".  It is a piece about Renewal.

TUESDAY'S FEATURES - IMAGINE PORTRAITS

Sending you my love song by ImagineStudio

Here are  a few of my favourite creations that I am featuring here for the first time.   These portraits take you somewhere whether historically or situationally.  I love them all  and I so look forward hearing what you think?

Could You Ever Really Know Her by Stiletto Heights

Enchantment by Violetbellaphoto

Sea Sisters by EmilyBalivet

I HAVE BEEN FEATURED AGAIN!

Glorious Hats has kindly featured me in a cluster and her blog (tuesday's favourites).  Check it out!  It is a gorgeous cluster!

http://lovelyclusters.com/clusters.html
http://glorioushats.blogspot.com

best,
frances

NEW WORK!

Ancient Horizon.  Frances Seward 2010

   It has been a very exciting few days where i have sold two of my very large prints (40 x 30 inch) today as well as a couple of my smaller pieces.  my work looks the best large and i have had a lot of enquiries for these but i work with such beautiful museum paper my prices are not rock bottom!

i am uploading a few new images i created yesterday and very excited about them!  The second image has subtle gradations of light and shadows and almost ciaroscuro in feel (which essentially means light and dark).  The image is entitled:  Ancient Horizon.  It can be printed up to 40 x 30 inches.  The piece above it is Journey 4 - a piece I am also very excited about!  Notice what a difference it makes when i shoot this image in an interior.  this image is about 50 x 40 inches and is printed on CANVAS.  Check them out in my Etsy Store.

I HAVE BEEN FEATURED!

I have been featured!

Check out a beautifully green sight for sore eyes with wonderfully organic soaps, salts and much more where my MOONRISE has been featured:

http://greenlovestore.blogspot.com

best as always
frances x

Weekend Snippets

I love to take walks when I can and these days I do not do it often enough but yesterday I took my 4 year old son, Quinn to a place we love best the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve.  Actually very few people know about it but living in Santa Fe, NM in the deserts you would never know you were there when visiting this place.  It is like an oasis with 3 different ecosystems.  Yesterday was windy, rainy, cloudy - just like England and not like the northern deserts (except it does get the winds in March).  It has HUGE cottonwoods two hundred years old, so many birds you cannot imagine and south western plant, medicinal or not and a pond with bull frogs and more dragonflies than you will ever see.  You can watch the land change if you visit it all year round.  Well, it is only open between May and October but I was told by one of the volunteers that you can jump the fence if you are discreet.  So we did just that and spent 2 fun hours there.  It was like it was our land!  I tell people about it a little but they cannot seem to figure out how to get there.  Therefore, unless I go with them they can never find it.  It's very well hidden and it's a good thing.  It does not need hoards of crowded people.  I did not take pictures yesterday but here are a few from last summer. 

What is your favourite hike or retreat?

INTERVIEW with LIBBY WHITE

I am very excited to announce the publishing of my interview with the wonderful and generous LIBBY White who is a microbiologist/fiber artist/interviewer.

Please click below to view the full interview:
http://www.fiberartisttoo.blogspot.com/

Have a wonderful week!

ERICA FREEMAN winner of the TITLE: SPRING EVENING ON NEPTUNE for Untitled No. 98

CONGRATULATIONS to Erica Freeman aka sierrapelonacrochet.etsy.com for winning the best title for Untitled (No 98).  The image is now called SPRING EVENING ON NEPTUNE.   WELL DONE Erica and thank you so much everyone for contributing to this giveaway.  Best, Frances Seward

a bit about me...

i need to write a bit about myself on this blog rather than uploading all of these images.  i am a dreamer but also very grounded.  nice combination don't you think?  but it isn't as easy as that.  after starting a family my life expanded but shrank at the same time.  i needed an outlet -- my work is my imagination, escaping to faraway places - but these places i go to are also deep within me, somewhere safe and centering.   I live in the high desert of new mexico and these are inspirations enough.  My work though is swimming in deep and distant waters and these bring me closer to where i belong - the british isles where i grew up.  strange though because when i lived in boston i could not stop creating photographs of the mountains!  how strange is that? 

Still Point Art Gallery BLOG: Frances Seward's Photographs and the Separation of Light and Dark

I am so thrilled to have this wonderful review about my work which is currently being exhibited at Still Point Fine Arts through February 9th 2010.

Still Point Art Gallery BLOG: Frances Seward's Photographs and the Separation of Light and Dark

What do you feel would be a great title for this photograph?

I am having a hard time finding a title for this piece - Untitled No.98 - for now! It is also listed in my Etsy shop.  


1.  Leave a suggestion below. 
2.  If you like what you see please do follow me.


In return whoever finds the best name for me will receive an 8 x 10 inch of this piece on premium quality paper. Now that has to be something worth entering!


Open to entries - from Saturday January 30th - Saturday February 6th 2010. I will contact the winner on Monday February 7th.


Thanks so much for participating. I am so looking forward to your suggestions!


Best for now
Frances

Sanguine Wave 2010

A new piece that I created a month ago but has been in the vaults waiting for the right time to publish.