Pro Talk: Gary Fabian Miller – Home Grown Art
Fine art photographer Garry Fabian Miller’s latest exhibition features a selection of remarkable camera-less images of flowers and plants that have been grown in the artist’s 15-acre garden on the edge of Dartmoor. We caught up to hear more about this joyful celebration of nature.
THINK ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHIC art and it’s natural to imagine that this must have been created in the conventional way, using a chosen camera and lens combo. It can be surprising then for those encountering work from fine art specialist Garry Fabian Miller to discover that his output has its origins in the darkroom, with his subjects effectively leaving their direct impression through contact with photographic paper.
The result is a celebration of nature in its purest form, and to ensure purity from start to finish the subjects featured in Garry’s work come from the 15-acre garden, consisting of meadows, orchards and woods, that the artist and his partner Naomi have carefully cultivated on the edge of Dartmoor. The photographs emerge from daily engagement with this environment, and form what he calls ‘a deeply personal response to a place’.
“Our life has been shaped by the making of the garden.,” says Garry. “It has become the most meaningful place in our world. Creating a settled state of being from which pictures have been seen, imagined, made visible. An ongoing act of love.”
Internationally exhibited over the past four decades, Garry’s latest show, entitled Our Garden. Growing. Making. Living, can be seen at the Kestle Barton farmstead in Cornwall until June 14, admission free. It’s a wonderful assemblage of imagery that closely reflects the artist’s response to the environment and his connection to the natural world.
