With an absolute love for nature and a background in art therapy and observation, I combine my passions for photography, discovery, and exploration to create imagery.
The specifics and details of what I observe blend together in my mind’s eye, and it is that blending, that compilation and abstraction of specific moments, that I hope to capture in my current body of work. If I had to put words to it, I might call it “contemporary impressionism”, but what it really amounts to is a combining and softening of environment and time into images that I hope encompass thoughts and feelings of a moment in time.
The images I create simplify what the bare eye sees, turning it into what we perceive when we look with a softer gaze, observing the essence rather than the specifics. It is a kind of minimalism, a reduction into sheer line, color, and movement, that represents something unclear which nevertheless feels familiar and recognizable....something like a dream or a memory.
My photographs may take one into an ethereal, tranquil, otherworldly place, while providing a calm and soothing feel to both the viewer and the environment.
My images are pure photography, created ‘in-camera’ without special equipment or computer digital manipulation.
It is my sincere hope that these images inspire others to look more deeply into our natural world, and to find in it, as I do, serenity and healing.
Grace Berge
