Nature

I started with black and white, and now increasingly return to it. I find it more challenging, I suppose because it is all about form and tone. For some images colour is even distracting. Moreover there is something timeless about the medium that colour can’t touch. 

Black & White

Landscape

Painterly

Tapestries and Textures

Still Life

Some images are meant to be large.  'Poplars' lives in a university room set aside for PhD defences, setting a contemplative and calming the tone for a fraught event.  Others reveal an element of my style, the hidden surprise which keeps bringing you back, as in 'Boat and Moon.'  These are tone poems for large spaces.

Large Format

Faith

People

Iconic images from the American Southwest.  Each has an element of mystery that makes them a bit different.

American Southwest

In 2006 the painter Pat Leary and I were part of a small group of physicians who visited Israel to study its medical systems and research efforts.  Afterwards we mounted a collaborative show, pairing my photographs with paintings and drawings she derived from them.  Though the show opened the day of the financial crash, it was well attended and quite successful.  The show was at Gallery 888 in Toronto, Canada 

Harvey Schipper's Art Collections