Gallery exhibition will showcase Ury Riverside Park through the seasons
The gallery space in the Acorn Centre in Inverurie continues to be popular with local artists and groups of artists. July's exhibition will be by local photographer Ian Talboys whose work will be on display in the Centre from Tuesday June 27 until Saturday, July 29.
The Centre is open Tuesday till Saturday, 10am until 3pm.
Commenting on the upcoming event Ian who is a resident of Inverurie and well known photographer said: "I started taking photographs about 50 years ago, as a child, with a Kodak 126 Instamatic film camera.
"Since then, I have moved up through several 35mm and medium format film cameras before moving to digital photography in 2005.
"I currently use Nikon equipment for his wildlife and landscape photography.
"Throughout my career in nature conservation and countryside ranger services, I have used my photographic skills to record wildlife and interpret it to a wide audience through displays, publications and online.
"I have had success in various photographic competitions winning the Scottish Nature Photography Awards Urban Landscape category in 2012 and the Scottish Botanical category in 2017.
"I was runner up in the Urban Greenspace categories in 2017 and 2019 and the Environmental category in 2017 as well as being a finalist in at least one category each year since 2015.
"I was Highly Commended in the International Garden Photographer of the Year 2019 Sissinghurst Castle category and I have been a finalist in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and British Wildlife Photographer of several times."
Proceeds from the sale of these photographs will be donated to the Ury Riverside Park SCIO. Ury Riverside Park
The Ury Riverside Park is a new park that has been developing over the last six years from former arable farmland on the flood plain of the River Ury in the heart of Inverurie, next to the Inverurie Retail Park.
A group of local people came together to form a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) in 2016 to take on the development of the park in collaboration with Aberdeenshire Council who currently own the land.
The park is being developed with a high-quality path network, areas of semi natural wetland, riparian habitats, new native woodlands, wildflower meadows and amenity grassland.
