Nature's Way art exhibition at Unity Theatre

Unity Theatre, Hope Place
8th - 31st October 2015

This exhibition features striking and sometimes abstract nature-based photographs and paintings by three Liverpool artists during October 2015.

It features photographs of Colin Serjent and Jane Groves, taken in Liverpool and Merseyside, while Carlee Graham is showing large nature-based abstract paintings.

"I particularly like taking my photographs in the Spring and Summer, using azure coloured skies to help emphasise the colour patterns and textures in my pictures," said Serjent, who has shown his work in the USA, Germany and various parts of England.

Dandelions by Jane Groves

"This preference for strong natural light helps me achieve the desired effects in my compositions. Many of the photographs, often taken close-up to the subject matter, are often abstract in appearance."

Serjent's subject matters include multi-coloured clusters of leaves, trees, plants and various other forms of distinctive and unusual looking natural habitats.

Serjent's photography website: www.abstractway.co.uk

"Nature is something we don't always see," remarked Groves. "We look around and take for granted the sights we see before us.

"Images in time provide us with a space to see what we would normally scan and discount from our minds. Capturing the here and now stalls our fleeting glance and gives us the opportunity to see these images, and for us to view those sights we tend to disregard as unremarkable.

"Nature is remarkable, it's nature's way. My images are a chance to see, held in time, as they are when we passed them by. No camera tricks, no deception, the images are as they were when I first laid my eyes upon them."

There are also large scale abstract paintings by another Liverpool artist Carlee Graham, depicting various natural elements, earth, fire and water, based around her observations of the natural terrain in Liverpool and Merseyside.

Shadowtime by Colin Serjent