Fire Tulip, digital archival print

ISABEL BANNERMAN

The exhibition will be open Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 4pm
The gallery is open at other times by appointment

Working with plants I have always taken photographs but was always dissatisfied. It seemed impossible to convey the depths of wonder that I could see and smell in my life as a gardener. About eight years ago I began to experiment with digital photography. The process is full of excitement and the extraordinary definition of the large format process meant that I could experiment with giant prints, taking the viewer further, ‘Alice’–like, into what is sometimes merely a tiny fragment of a plant. A life designing gardens, growing plants and working outdoors meshes entirely the quest for extraordinary plant material with the work in the dark studio.
Isabel Bannerman together with her husband Julian has worked for over twenty five years as a Garden Designer, creating buildings and gardens which are often romantic, powerful and timeless.

Magnolia dawsoniana, Chyverton Red, digital archival print