Born in 1978, Charlotte Taylor grew up amongst the Yorkshire Wolds and the landscapes which have provided the visual and emotional springboard to her artistic career. Following formal training in Fine Art at the City and Guilds of London Art School, Taylor specialised in artistic photography drawing on a natural creativity and ‘feel’ for her subject matter. 

Fascinated by shape, form, contrast and patterns formed in nature, these photographic studies of time and place raise questions of mortality, decay and rebirth.  Taylor explains, 'Arboreal Cartography records and represents the formation of beautiful natural landscapes, those often seen and not noticed. Each title includes a map reference relating the permanent location to its fragile subject.

Viewed in pitiless naked detail, nature is exposed as visceral, brutal and unflinching. Yet it is in the midst of nature’s very destruction, when insects burrow beneath bark and fungus blooms amongst dying wood, that unexpected and transient beauty is to be found.’

Captured complete and intact on medium-format film using only natural light, Taylor infuses the traditions of landscape art photography with an impressive technical ability and unmistakably contemporary brand of natural glamour.