Beach and Fish

East Coast Series 2011 – 2013

In these landscape photographs I want to acknowledge that the landscape is not always the pristine, idyllic place we may desire.

These composite images show a distant view combined with a close-up shot of an object found there in the landscape. The isolated object, apart from having a beauty of its own, serves to disrupt the notion of an unspoiled, picturesque scene.

In this work, my primary concern was to create artwork that had an aesthetic sensibility and that expressed my passion for natural places. Secondly, that the work had some connection to wider political and psychological issues regarding the environment.

I am interested in how our connection to, or distance from, the natural world affects our general well-being. And whether we are, therefore, more or less likely to support policy that protects environment.