'Fenland' — A Photography Book 'Fenland' is a photography book documenting the Cambridgeshire Fenland landscape — a body of work made over several years, with the majority of the photographs taken during the winter of 2020/21. The book brings together black and white images of the Fenland's characteristic topography: dykes and rivers, tilted telegraph poles, uneven roads disappearing into the distance, and the isolated farmhouses and farm buildings that punctuate the flat ter

Surreal Vision in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands The Cambridgeshire Fenlands have a quality that is, at certain times and in certain conditions, genuinely surreal. The flatness of the terrain, the enormous sky, the way the horizon seems to recede as you approach it — these are qualities that resist the ordinary categories of landscape description and that invite a different kind of looking. The Fens are not picturesque; they are strange. Surrealism and Landscape The Surrealists

'Submarine' — Painting the Submerged Fenland Landscape The title of this painting refers to the geological and historical reality of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands: a landscape that was, for most of its history, submerged beneath water. The Fens were drained over several centuries, beginning in earnest in the seventeenth century, and the land that was reclaimed from the sea and the marsh has been in a state of slow subsidence ever since. Much of the Fenland is now below sea leve