WILD BEAUTY

Wild Beauty is a photographic exhibition of still lifes featuring flowers gathered from roadsides, hedgerows, thickets, and gardens – local plants, harvested gently in their own time.

I draw inspiration from the Dutch Renaissance painters, who created lavish floral compositions as quiet reminders of life’s transience. With Wild Beauty, I wish to contribute to this tradition – but using contemporary photography as my tool, and with a focus on the plants that grow all around us.

My hope is that the exhibition may serve as a reminder that flowers – like food – follow the rhythm of the seasons, and are therefore to be savoured while they are here.

You might think: Why should this really matter to me – I’m not interested in flowers at all? Because nature gives us more than beauty. It also offers us breath. A natural pulse, which can remind us to live in a more organic flow – closer to the changing rhythm of life and the seasons.

Wild Beauty is a tribute to the near, the wild, and the beautiful in what we so often overlook. But it is also a tribute to photography as an art form in an age where images are consumed at a furious pace. My photographs are large, and they invite you to pause and look a little more closely at the details.