About the artist

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Landscape Observational Studies UK emerged from a shift in my photographic practice.

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For many years I worked in environments where directing and shaping moments formed part of the photographic process. At Rousham Gardens, while photographing garden historian Advolly Richmond OBE, I adopted a different approach. Richmond was given complete freedom to move through the landscape without interruption or guidance, while I worked solely as an observer.

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What began as a photographic study of how expertise is expressed through engagement with landscape became something else. In relinquishing direction, I discovered a different way of seeing. Rather than constructing moments, I became interested in observing them as they unfolded.

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That experience established the foundation of an ongoing body of work exploring how meaning emerges through movement, attention, interpretation and place.

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