Art from the Lens gallery

Art from the Lens gallery Currently an online gallery specialising in original vintage photographs and commissions.

Small gallery specialising in the art of photography and photographic associated services. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are currently trading online only at the moment, with a short term aim to be at local art and market events very soon, whilst new gallery space is sourced.

17/06/2026

Seems fitting to be sharing this whilst being north of Edinburgh.
Despite FedEx's best efforts, this original salt print from the early photographic creative powerhouse of Hill and Adamson, finally arrived into our permanent collection.
Based on Sir Walter Scott book, "The Antiquarian" and shot at Rock House Edinburgh.

16/06/2026

As the end of summer starts this weekend, a reminder from history by the lens of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe.
Called the "Mudlarks" , it captures a group of local children playing on the foreshore.
Not only does it capture the laughter, it catches a moment of respite from the poverty and work in Whitby.
Everyone in this picture would have already known someone who lost their life to the sea.
It's their neighbour, life giving and taking.
They have grown up learning to read and look for changes.
So when you visit, if you are lucky enough, to any coast, don't forget the sea does not care who you are. Keep the lifeboat crew at home this year.

For all their history, two pooches who showed what stubborn love and patience can achieve, even all they wanted was beer...
14/06/2026

For all their history, two pooches who showed what stubborn love and patience can achieve, even all they wanted was beer, a packet of crisps and fox p**p to roll in x Thinking of you all
Loved this portrait session

12/06/2026

Sourced in France, this beautiful photochrome of a Cullercoats fish lass, reveals not only the tools of her trade, the boots and baskets, but the choice of fashion to show her roots.
The photographer would have provided very detailed notes about the colours, so each lithograph stone could be colour matched.
This is not a postcard but a photographic print, so it is larger in size.

10/06/2026

Fashion in clothing and baskets, the trade of fish and shellfish, brought not only news, gossip but changes to fashion.
This original Frank Meadow Sutcliffe photograph of one of the young girls working the beach and fish harbour, still looks fresh after all these years.

08/06/2026

A wonderful CDV by king of the north postcards, Matthew Auty that looks across Short Sands towards the lighthouse, a castle, a priory and the North Sea. He was not being greedy, just this was his view round the corner from his studio on Front Street in Tynemouth.
The details are stunning when you look up close.

07/06/2026

Imagine a world without the internet, no mass media, no phones. Magazines were a new industry growing in special interests as education spread across the classes.
Then you walk into a gallery promoting the latest work from photographers and you see this work.
See it without the 100 years plus of cultural overlay, the postcards, the paintings, critical writing of pompous wannabes.
You see the composition, it makes you smile, no twee sentimental judgement, because beyond the smile you see a photographer showing boys growing up in poverty but finding a way still to be a child once in a while.
This photography by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe taken in Whitby changed composition in art and photography, so much so, he spent years in copyright cases against painters and photographers across the world.
These boys knew Mister and trusted him and he knew how to build upon what they did for excitement and news sharing.
Learning to read original vintage photographs is to see through the eyes of a child and then you can time travel through history.

06/06/2026

Taken by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe in Whitby of the waiting fish wives, no doubt with some hints as to where to stand, this is a scene timelessly repeated at every sailing or fishing port.
Each place would have its own variation on the practical outfit, each proud of the local variation.
Changes subtle over time as fashion and fabric whispered along the ports from the fisherman's eyes and trade.
Sutcliffe and North Shields lad, Lyd Sawyer, both composed similar images of the fish wives. Being sons of painters, you can see how they worked out the composition to fit the lens and yet make it feel natural.
A delightful original vintage photograph.

04/06/2026

The real cost over run for restoration of the Tyne Bridge, the installation of skateboard park for the chicks to keep them from bothering the workers demanding they share the sausage rolls 😏

03/06/2026

A few years after my last post and things have changed somewhat along Tynemouth Long Sands.
The railway and the need to escape the daily grind and dirt of the city, brought the crowds to coastal spots.
A moment before, much later, foreign travel fell in the reach of many people.
A lovely original photograph that tells a much bigger story.

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