Welcome to my galleries and website. I hope you will take time to view my work, and enjoy what you see here. I am a Cornish man, with a passion for nature and wildlife, and a keen conservationist. Nature has always provided me with the inspiration for my humble artistic endeavours, the problem is that within nature we see perfection, my father always said the wider you open the window towards perfection, the more the muck blows in!

Therefore one can only be inspired and have an idea and try to be very creative in making this idea into a work of art. Seldom will we ever be able to even come close to what we see in “Mother nature”. I have worked hard to develop the required level of craftsmanship, without the outcome of my efforts being motivated by the desire to follow a vision for my entire body of work.

Vision is an overriding envelope that I struggle to encompass for both my inspiration and creativity. It is a blanket that covers the work I try to do. A blanket that came later in the life. Perhaps too late, but one has to try to perfect one’s art and move beyond the commonplace an outcome that most artists have to go through. For this reason I placed vision as the final step of the process. I placed it there not because it comes necessarily at the end of the process but because in life it is often something that other artists like myself discover later on.

In my work I take pride in the quality of my images, and use some great equipment, but the belief that a good photograph is the result of a good camera places the importance upon the equipment rather than upon the photographer. It emphasizes the machine rather than the man, the tool rather than the artist, the technology rather than the artistic intent. Would Monet turn in his grave if his work was only thought to be great because he had good paintbrushes!

I found a long time ago that it is while doing activities very different from photography that provides a constant inspiration. I therefore engage regularly in activities that have nothing to do with photography, and yet activities that are related to photography in the sense that conducting these activities relaxes my mind so that it becomes open to ideas for new images.

And also occurs when taking time off, or when visiting places away from home, by visiting a places that is special to me, like my native Cornwall, or Ireland or Italy the home of my families, or a place I have never been to so far, or again a place they always wanted to go, is a way to invite inspiration in my life.

Always it is a pleasure, in meeting other professionals, or attending a workshops, or going to a seminar, opens the door onto new ways of seeing and onto new inspiration. I take an active part in moderating a photography gallery on a large art website at www.rendersoity.com and have many friends there whose work you can also view by following the links.. And also my other friends who feature in my list of friends.

Please take time to comment on images  and if you care to purchase any artwork or photograph please follow the links or use my Contact Page

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