The Boathouse I Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

Paul Howell is a landscape and nature photographer living in North Yorkshire, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. His work is inspired by the being, the observing, the appreciation of nature, beauty, entropy and humanity’s place and relationship within it – be it truth or fiction. Influenced by cinema, classic landscape painting and abstract concepts of form, flow and colour Paul uses tones, layering and atmospherics to create works that have a quality of almost being from the imagination or memory. Part of the beauty of the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors, Nidderdale and Lake District, areas where many of Paul’s works are created, is the presence of people within the landscape and the evidence of their role in shaping it. A theme he often uses not to overwhelm his landscape’s but as a detail to provide a subtle narrative within the work. Preferring to use the still image Paul likes to allows the viewer the freedom of interpretation of the narrative in the scene even in those that are created with a specific story in mind.