Exhibition information:
During Oxfordshire Art Weeks 2024 I am delighted to be exhibiting again at the wonderful KFL 'Spice of Life' pop-up gallery in Summertown where visitors will enjoy a cornucopia of creative work by a number of exciting artists and makers.
I am showing a small selection of photographs made on a trip in early summer of 2023 to the Faroe Islands, for me a new and seemingly remote country. The Faroe Islands is a self-governing archipelago, part of the Kingdom of Denmark, situated between Iceland and Norway approximately 500 miles north west of Scotland. Its 59,000 people live mainly on the larger of the 18 rocky, volcanic islands which are connected by road tunnels, ferries, causeways and bridges. The landscape is barren and rugged with high coastal cliffs and deep inlets where isolated settlements seem to nestle. The weather is changeable and often very windy as listeners to The Shipping Forecast will know but when the clouds clear and the rain stops the light is magical.
I hope that my images capture some of that spirit.
Although I am essentially a documentary photographer, recording what I see and experience, my work encompasses a range of styles and approaches developed over many yeas.
I am a passionate traveller both to exotic lands and also across the amazing British isles, as well as around my adopted city of Oxford. I often travel on foot, sometimes covering long distances, and never without my camera.
I relish serendipitous encounters, often with strangers in strange locations, which are the source of many of my portrait studies. My early training as an architect sustains my interest in the best and the worst examples of the human environment, both ancient and modern.
For me, as an individual and as a photographer, everything in this extraordinary and precious world that we briefly inhabit is interesting and worth photographing with passion, humanity and gentle humour!