Time & place

We are especially sensitive to shifts of light and weather. In the past our survival depended on how well we could read these signs and our emotional response to a particular place varies with changing light and atmosphere – under cloud or caught by the morning sun.

Although these changes are fleeting in themselves, the identity of a location and our feelings about it are layered: the sum total of countless transient moments.

I am fascinated by these subtle shifts that deliver much of the visual magic we find in the natural world. In the rural landscape colours glow and fade with the movement of sun and clouds, but on the coast, with light bouncing between sea and sky, the effects can be pure theatre.

The sequences I have recorded are intended less as photographs in their own right and more as a reference for myself and a way of exploring aspects of the world that are relatively untouched by human beings.

You may find them interesting, and I guess they sit within a tradition of investigation among landscape artists since Constable.