{"id":227162,"date":"2025-10-26T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227162\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:29:11","slug":"teesdale-photographer-martin-rogers-opens-picture-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227162\/","title":{"rendered":"Teesdale photographer Martin Rogers opens &#8216;Picture Palace&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Martin Rogers, based in Teesdale, has opened a display and sales space at Middleton Mart, offering visitors a chance to browse and purchase his photographic work.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The studio, which Mr Rogers describes as a &#8220;Picture Palace,&#8221; primarily features images from around Teesdale but also includes photographs from Weardale and further afield.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Rogers said: &#8220;I am delighted to announce that I now have a \u2018studio\u2019 in Middleton Mart, which I am using as a display and sales space for my work.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This has been primarily photographs taken in and around Teesdale, but increasingly includes Weardale and further afield.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The gallery is open to the public during events at the mart, such as the monthly Farmers\/Indie market held on the fourth Saturday of each month and the UTASS Christmas Fair on Saturday, November 29.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Visitors can also arrange an appointment to visit at other times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Rogers said: &#8220;I live just across the bridge from the Mart, and can be there in three minutes.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His work is available in a variety of formats and sizes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He offers 120x80cm canvases, smaller prints, fridge magnets, mounted prints, and a wide selection of greeting cards and postcards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;I also have a lovely calendar of local images, my A4-landscape book Essential Teesdale, an affectionate portrait of the dale with 76 full-colour pages and 150 photographs, and an A5 book, High Force, with 39 full-page pictures \u2013 including several as most people will never have seen it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The cards and postcards include 15 snow scenes, ideal for Christmas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While the main focus is on Teesdale\u2019s landscape and wildlife, Mr Rogers also features a range of other subjects and locations in his collection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His work is already on display in several local pubs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;All in all, the studio is a veritable \u2018Picture Palace\u2019 of photographs, with the focus very much on Teesdale\u2019s wonderful landscape and nature \u2013 but including a variety of other subjects and locations.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Rogers is also in the process of updating his website.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;I am also busy developing my website, which I recently switched to a different platform and is taking much longer to complete than I would have wished.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The website can be found at martinrogersphotography.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Rogers, based in Teesdale, has opened a display and sales space at Middleton Mart, offering visitors a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-227162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}