Caroline Marg Elliott is a nature and abstract photographer who has exhibited in London as well as throughout the United Kingdom as well as in Rome. Her most recent exhibitions include Elysium Gallery, Cromer Artspace Spitalfields, CasildART, and Mall Galleries, all in London, as well as Glasgow Gallery of Photography, AKA Fine Art in Cambridge, National Central Library of Rome, Fronteer Gallery in Sheffield, and 44AD Gallery in Bath. Caroline has been published by Suboart magazine, Saatchi Art, and Axis.
Employing both abstract digital and chemically-altered analogue photography, Caroline’s body of work ranges from cyanotypes bleached with washing soda and dyed with waterproof drawing inks to foggy scenes of natural environments creating a sense of distortion and abstraction. She explores the connotations process and technique can have in our interpretations of natural beauty. The overall photography, whether digital or analogue, appears to have an aged, sfumato quality as if an everlasting fog had fallen over her compositions and landscape with texture on the surface in the manner of erosion.
Deeply inspired and nuanced, these photographs deconstruct natural imagery and the purpose of the landscape in art through photographic distortions in the lab and in camera, rather than digitally enhanced. Caroline encourages the viewer to rediscover our desires around nature by adding a sense of deterioration and corrosion to the surface of the photographs. Her carefully selected cropping creates compositional elements which can appear abstract in her digital photography and impressionistic in the analogue. These bleached surfaces create interpretations of natural environments to invoke mystery and a sense of bewilderment through smoke-like qualities.
The digital photography pieces, such as the green composition (pictured above) included in the article depicts a close-up shot of what appears to be foliage. The mist in the air and composition leaves an abstract impression and the monochromatic substance of the piece becomes amplified by the pale green reflections in the window. An investigate declaration, the piece communicates a sense of solitude and isolation capturing images through reflections and windows.
Caroline Marg Elliott explores the depths of psychological impulses in relation to natural environments. Her textural and erosion-like photography creates mysterious spatial interactions which invoke serene and trance-inducing qualities through muted and bleached tones. These dynamic photographs further enhance the purpose of contemporary photography as a vehicle towards using fluxus-inspired philosophies of emphasizing process over finality. Aesthetically complex and containing a great sense of exploration, Caroline uses photography to express composure in a manner of a refined visual symphony.
