Artist Project 2025

Like other urban landscape work that Hugh has done, his photos of cities in France are informed by his interests in signage, ambiguous meanings within the relationships of objects and architecture, his experience of being a pedestrian walking within the city, the emotions that he feels when light and weather transform his surroundings, and also how urban environments come to reflect their inhabitants.

My most recent photographs, created in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast and Dublin.  These camera-based images overlap with my interests in botanical paintings.  Here, I explore gardens in Ireland as psychological spaces, with alternating closed and open compositions revealing rhythms of walls, pathways and windows.