​Victoria's photography focuses on elements of the natural world and her local area in the Chiltern Hills National Landscape.  From wide vistas to the smallest seedheads, she seeks to make a record of overlooked details and changing seasons to draw attention to the beauty to be found in the everyday.  Victoria seeks to create pared-back pictures with organic colour palettes and gentle light. 

 

Victoria grew up loving drawing and design, while studying science and psychology. While living for several years in the Middle East with young children, she practised photography as a way to document her every day life. Once back in the UK, the stark contrast from the dry, largely artificial surroundings in Dubai, to the Chiltern Hills Landscape, gave her a new appreciation for the scenery, seasons and picturesque surroundings of the area in which she had grown up. 

 

Victoria now finds herself with a dog, and a garden, walking every day around the small market town in which she lives, bordered by the Ridgeway and Wendover Woods, as well as the construction of the new High Speed Rail line.  As she watches the seasons changing, with annual variations and increasingly unpredictable weather, alongside the building of this huge railway, her interest in the science of nature, plants and trees has grown, alongside an awareness of the human need to experience nature, and to be naturally drawn to its beauty.

 

Recently, Victoria has focused her lens on the intricate details of found natural items such as tree fruits, seedheads, and leaves. Bringing these objects indoors, she studies their forms through photography, contemplating the relationship between function and structure. Her aim is to create images that are both beautiful and tranquil, highlighting the unique architecture of each subject away from the often chaotic outdoor settings. Through her work, she seeks to convey the intricacy found in these natural elements, replicated with subtle variations across every patch of shrubbery, roadside verge, and woodland within the landscape.