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Feeling and Sensation Diptychs Studley Woods

In December 2025, I photographed a set of trees at Studley Woods near Oxford – which is actually a copse. These trees are set beside a ditch, creating a boundary. They are various ages but some are older – perhaps being repeatedly coppiced. Their gnarled trunks with moss growing upon have a contrasting texture to the shimmering grass in the winter sunlight, create images with a soft almost velvet feel.

Colourfields Gallery 3

The photographic art presented here is part of the Colourfields series, made from September to December 2025.

Colourfields Gallery 2

The photographic art presented here is part of the Colourfields series, made from September to December 2025.

Colourfields Gallery 1

The photographic art presented here is part of the Colourfields series, made from September to December 2025.

Colourfields

Colourfields is a series of photographic artworks which create expanses of colour, light and dark: usurping the conventional photographic notions of foreground and background such that there is only surface. Or simply put ‘abstract photography’.

Feeling and Sensation Diptychs

At the start of July 2025, I had begun to arrange photographs which I created with my Rolleicord film camera in pairs – diptychs. The black and white photos were sensuous. I was intrigued by how they modified each other: complementing or contrasting, creating a relation between them and of them.

Residuals #10 Light

In January 2025 – a year after starting the Residuals series, I used performance and long exposure photography to record light – its reflection from the surfaces of moving bodies, as a residual – including darkness and shadow too! Here are presented these ‘light graphs’ from the session at Goldsmiths CI at Goldsmiths, University of London on Saturday 18 January.