Tulip Fields: Nurture Photograph - Limited Edition of 5

Sara Rawlinson is a contemporary photographer specialising in abstract fine art and architectural photography. Her first career in academic earth science still heavily influences her photography to show textures, landscapes, and geological current events such as sea level rise and volcanic eruptions. She has had a camera in her hands most days since she was six years old working in the field and in her grandma’s darkroom. This was then followed by a decade in academic earth science and natural hazards. She returned to photography on a full time basis in 2013. In her fine art abstract work, Rawlinson uses her camera to create memories of moments rather than recording specific details, with the aim to make photos with intentional movement and often without context to evoke an ephemeral and painterly aesthetic. Her work evokes the essence of a subject by leaning towards the ‘significant form’ idea from the 1920s Bloomsbury Group’s Clive Bell – that a good work of art is so defined by its ability to provoke ‘aesthetic emotion’ in the viewer and has little, if anything, to do with subject identification or representation. Many of Rawlinson’s photographs and self-published books have been shortlisted for international awards and are held in private and public collections around the world.  Her work has been described as: - “Finally photography meets fine art!” - “[Rawlinson’s book] must be the most handsome tribute ever paid to a single building. With its blend of words and diverse visual voices it is an Alleluia Chorus.” - “Here, indeed, is beauty. Sara has the rare skill of drawing out the intimate, the special, the unique spirit of a place.” - A woman was scooting along the bench looking at one of Rawlinson’s exhibitions. She was so engrossed that she literally slid right off the end of the bench (and very excitedly came to Rawlinson’s next exhibition). Sara lives in Cambridge England with her husband and 10-yr old daughter. Her days are filled with photography, travel, home schooling her daughter.