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Chocolate

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:47:11 GMT

Handmade Chocolates at Café La Strada

Café La Strada is pleased to show off their range of beautifully handmade chocolates by Lauden & Crème D’Or.

About Lauden….

Lauden Chocolate was born out of frustration by the owners not being able to buy fine chocolate where they live. So, Sun & Stephen (the owners) spent all their spare time learning & researching ingredients to make the finest chocolates in the world. A tall order, but one they are certainly on the road to success with when they won a Bronze at the Academy of Choclate Awards in 2009 for the Best Dark Truffle.
Sun a chocolatier herself found the company was growing so quickly, they recently opened their factory in Leeds.

“It’s so lovely to have such a fine product being thought of & made here in Britain. We are very lucky to have their beautiful range in La Strada” – Jude Kelly Owner of Café La Strada.

About Crème D’Or…

Crème D’Or was established in 1991. Importing the highest quality products from all over Europe.
Over time we have built up key partnerships to offer a wide & varied range of chocolates & confectionary.
All of our counter chocolates have excellent ingredients & are hand finished for that personal touch.

Cheap Street Fun Day!

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Exhibitions

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:52:43 GMT

Current Exhibition in Café La Strada

July 2010

Jeremy Haslam

Artist’s statement

In my landscape photographs, taken over the last forty years or so, I have always attempted to explore abstract patterns and textures in landscape forms and buildings, using the rectangular frame of a photograph as a creative formal composition. Many of these early photographs were taken with a square medium-format camera, using colour transparencies, and were inspired by the open spaces of the Marlborough Downs and Salisbury Plain, which I used to visit regularly and in all weathers and seasons. I have now scanned many of these into digital format, and use a digital camera for its ease of use and flexibility.
As a development of this, I started making photocollages in the late 1980s, again concentrating on landscape and townscape subjects, in which I was influenced by the photocollage work of David Hockney. These began using prints which were arranged on a board and then stuck together – somewhat laboriously. I now use digital frames and make photocollages on a computer using Photoshop, which introduces a whole range of new and more flexible possibilities in making the final image.
I have recently started combining found objects with photographic images, to create low-relief ‘photo-constructions’ as a sculptural form. These combine the ‘virtual’ depth of a photographic image with the real depth of a relief sculpture, creating a visual tension between the two kinds of visual reference, and using the same means of creating illusions of space that architectural relief sculptures employ.