PETER WOODBURN

Peter Woodburn is an artist-photographer carving his niche both via felt connection with unique but everyday landscapes and through the digital / computational approaches he uses to convey this. Loving the interplay between fact and feeling, abstraction and reference, he also enjoys the resonances between his chosen medium and painting. His approach, based on documenting the details of localities, involves being present in and open to the place and its processes before trying to capture images of these. Similar principles also inform his interior still lifes , based on the later stages of existence of flowers and the sense of lived lives they create around them. He approaches hidden worlds of natural detail with the spontaneity of emotions which are already present in sight itself. He communicates via 'documentary expressionism': fixing the essence of place and natural presence, whose spontaneous power to evoke and to move he celebrates.