PROJECT / Elemental Series (2018 - )

Photographic project striving to transcend traditonal landscape photography and painting which the photographer feels does not adequately capture the beauty and majesty of this planet. The project uses photographic film in conjunction with fundamental, natural chemical elements. Natural elements and compounds are collected at the site of the picture - usually at the location depicted within the photograph. The depicted scenes you see here are created not just by light on film but by collecting samples of naturally occurring water, mineral elements and organic matter from the scene and chemically bonding to the film over several months, the resulting images created from the scene pictured, itself. Echoing ancient alchemical methodologies, the process of production of the images and their resulting mystical appearance together reflect the ups and downs of the search undertaken by an artist to understand his and more widely, humankind's own, spiritual nature. No collating or cutting and pasting of external or internal elements into the picture in Photoshop or similar editor has taken place. Also included here are preparatory studies and thematically associated sketches that feed into the series, including chemical painting studies on copper and paper. All Rights Reserved. This creator is well versed in International Copyright Law and ownership rights have been successfully enforced.

Elemental Miami #15 - Wormhole - view across Star, Palm, Hibiscus Islands and the Bay

Elemental Miami #8 - Live

Elemental 140 - The view North East across the river Chess Valley, Hertfordshire, England

Elemental #137 - The Land Changed Beyond All Recognition

Elemental #131 - Fugue, across The Black Lake at dusk

Elemental #228: Sleep. Sleep, sleep. 2021

Elemental #225 : Slow Waves, 2019. (Uppsala, Eastern Sweden.)

Elemental #193: Mycelium Awakening - southwards through Blackwater Woods

Elemental #179: Spring Power, 2018

Elemental #169: Frost Pyramids - West over Bergenhus

Elemental #162: Autumn Power (Bergen, Norway, 2018)

Elemental #222: They mostly come at night. Mostly. 2018.

Elemental #152: Solstice - Norwegian woods, Bergens Fjellstrekninger

Elemental #160: Black Philosophy Tree

Elemental #173: Landscape with Birch & Fir. Gol, Spring 2018

Elemental #163: Aqevitt Sunrise, Norway, March 2018

Elemental #157: Soylent Solstice

Elemental #184: Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Elemental #147: The Last Ray of Light

Elemental #207: Oort Cloud (Gaztelugatxe, 2019)

Elemental #229: Helium Bay on Rigel 8 (North from Atxulo, 2019)

Elemental #190: In the Shadow of the Mountain, Astxiki - North East towards Mendiola

Elemental #210: Dark Peacock Specimens (North over the Druid votive lake Cerric-Bach, Anglesea, 2019)

Elemental #189: Wormhole J102834 - the view North across holy Druidic Llyn Cerrig-Bach

Elemental #201: From The Deep. Looking north across the druid lake Cerrig-Bach, Anglesea.

Elemental #211: Zodiac Sea Wolf. Penmaenmawr, 2019.

Elemental #198: Rhythm: Snowdonia from Anglesea, 2019

Elemental #233: Down Dark Paths

Elemental #230: First Landing On Earth By Our Ancestors (North from Atxulo, 2019)

Elemental #207: Per Terram et Mare et Aer (View west over the Irish Sea to Snowdonia from Anglesea, 2019)

Elemental #212: The Sound Of The Sea, 2019. (The view of Eryri’s mountains from Ynys Llanddwyn.)

Elemental #195: Journey To The Centre, looking South West towards Ireland

Elemental #234: Stand on Avalon

Elemental #209: Unknown Pleasures (View West of Moel Hebog, 2019)

Elemental #227: Ceridwen’s Blessing

Elemental #235: Tides of change

Elemental #199: The portal opened on terrifying new reality

Elemental #202: Life On Titan. Uppsala.

Elemental #196: Sun Through The Redwoods, Blackwater Woods, 2019

Elemental #236: Awaken, spirits of Jólnir!

Elemental #237: The Neutrinos Were a Warning, 2019. (After Sutherland)

Elemental #232: The Bone Trees (View West from Dunstable Downs, 2019)

Elemental #194: The trees reveal, Twilight mist forest spirits, Glowing pink at dusk.

Elemental #197: When Everything Changed, 2020

Elemental #166: Gravity well

Elemental #146: Door in The Sky

Elemental #165: Entanglement

Elemental #178: Infinite, 2018

Elemental #176: Atmosphere, 2018.

Elemental #168: Storm Warning II - the view due east from Bahia Honda towards Africa

Elemental #170: A Reality Distortion - due east from Bahia Honda towards Africa

Elemental #149: The view south-west towards the Cuba from Sandspur Beach, Bahia Honda Key

Elemental #150: Glowing spores emerged from the tear
(The view south-west towards the Cuba from Sandspur Beach, Bahia Honda Key)

Elemental #180: Where the storm has gone, only I will remain

Elemental #156: Positive Waves

Elemental #167: Storm Warning I

Elemental #182: ‘I think a portal to another dimension is going to be pretty obvious’, she announced.

Elemental #159: He3 Mining on Neptune

Elemental #152: Solstice - Norwegian woods, Bergens Fjellstrekninger

Elemental #172: Frozen Stream, Winter Scene; West Norway

Elemental #161: Pine forest track at sundown on Mount Fløyen, Norway

Elemental #245: It was strange but they saved everything, 2020

Elemental #240: The View North West from Pentire Head, Cornwall. 2020

Elemental #238: Dusk Forest Spirit, 2020. (Looking east from The Firs)

Elemental #241: In Her Corona, 2020

Elemental #203: The Beach on Venus

Elemental #129: Dense summer storm blowing west over Lake Orta, Northern Italy

Elemental #219: Cyanowave. Lake Orta, 2017.

Elemental #215: Music of the Mythic Leporine (The view down the Fuorn valley, 2017)

Elemental #216: Mercury. The view down the Fuorn valley, 2017.

Elemental #125: The Deluge

Elemental #220: The Trouble with Lichen IV. Orta, 2017.

Elemental #175: Light falling on a tree, Lake Constance, 2017.

Elemental #191: Plasma Waves, the view South along the Tamil Nadu coast towards Kovalam

Elemental #217: Anger the Undine Queen, 2017.

Elemental #208 : The Resort at Orion Nebula (View South along the Tamil Nadu coast, 2019)

Elemental #206 : Panspermia. Tamil Nadu, 2019.

Elemental #214: Let the Warriors Dance; The view down the Fuorn valley, Switzerland, 2017.

Elemental #130: Hills in the Mist over Lake Orta

Elemental #244: From the waterfall came crystalline lifeforms, 2020

Elemental #124: Deliberate Nature. Lake Orta, Summer 2017.

Elemental #151: The Pickle Nebula (The View Southwards from Valdidentro towards Mount Ortles & the Southern Tyrol)

Elemental #246: Microcrystalline Vibrations. Tintagel, 2020.

Elemental #239: Lessons From Our Ancestors, 2020. (West from Merlin’s Cave, Cornwall)

Elemental #243: Nation Forge Flame, 2022

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