I enjoy looking at the intricacies within the English landscape, particularly of woodlands and I try to capture in the photographs the fleeting fabric of light, colour and graphic forms that I see.
The natural world seen through imagination and a sense of daydream.
I hope also within the compositions to be reminded of the elements of sound and movement which helped stir me to seperate these images as fragments of the vast world, into the camera's tiny space, and then to enlarge them again through the material processes of print.
A process of revisiting and recapturing the timelessness yet temporal nature of the natural world.
Exhibitions
2012 Two Photographers, The Gardens Gallery, Montpellier, Cheltenham 2011 Bright Futures, Cheltenham Open Studios
2010 Jonathan Poole Compton Cassey Gallery, Gloucestershire
2010 Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham
2009 'Lightmoor' Open Studios - Cheltenham Arts Festival.
2007 The Swell Gallery, Gloucestershire - 5 Cotswold Artists
2000 Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery Cafe
1999 ‘Discovering the Landscape.’ - Cheltenham Town Hall
History
I am half Czech, half English, born here. Married, with two sons and a beautiful labrador and we live in Cheltenham surrounded by the rolling Cotswold Hills.
On a road trip across America I learned photography, on the run with a Nikon and some black and white film. I photographed in the Mojave desert at track events and in Baja, California, eventually spending two years in Los Angeles in a studio environment photographing faces for album covers. For every job, I read up the technical processes required. That was in the 1970's
When I returned to England, I continued to work as a professional commercial photographer, until doing a contemporary degree in Media & Communications at the University of Gloucestershire in 1996. Through working as a curator in a gallery and on creating the photography portfolio of the photographer, actor, Cavan Kendall, I developed a passionate interest in exploring for myself the subjective relationship between photography and landscape.
I see the countryside with a certain sense - the startling colour or form, within a subconscious sense of composition, a fragment from a vast world, framed, then to be enlarged again..
Always, the fabric of light and sometimes sound, will stir the artist within with a passion to capture the scene within the camera's magic space, and thereafter the tale can be portrayed through material development and imagination.