One of three photographs in the exhibition.

Walking through the woods, I’ve been using intentional camera movement as a way of responding to the landscape through feeling it, rather than simply documenting it. Instead of trying to capture the trees clearly, I let movement and light shape the image as it’s made. The camera becomes less of a recording tool and more a way of translating atmosphere and emotion.

The images end up somewhere between photography and painting. Trees blur into lines becoming marks and traces, and familiar forms start to break apart. I’m interested in moving away from a clear description of the landscape and towards something that feels closer to the experience of being there.

Through abstraction, I’m trying to hold onto something of that experience — not a record of the woods themselves, but what it feels like to be within them.

‘Field Notes’ runs from 25 -28 June 2026 in The Blue Chapel, Kells during the Hinterland Festival.