Susan Derges offers us a personal meditation on the human self in relation to the natural landscape. For over twenty years, her pioneering cameraless techniques have encompassed subject matter informed by landscape and scientific experimentation. In her pioneering work using bodies of water near her home in Dartmoor, she captures the natural movement of water by placing light sensitive paper into rivers, streams and shorelines at night, using moonlight or a hand held torch to expose images onto the paper. There are intimations of the artist’s presence in how the flow of water is affected by her physically, thereby visualising the interaction between Derges and her environment. The artist has escaped the confines of the camera and dark room, using her own body as the conductor between nature and its image cast onto paper.  “I’m painting with light – or at least that’s the way it feels to me”.

This exhibition will include a unique ‘Shoreline’ image created in 1998 with more recent works from her series‘Ocean Flowers’and ‘River Taw and Streens’. With new technology, Derges has revisited previously unseen photographs that were damaged during creation, restoring and transforming them in order to digitally produce small editions of original dye transfer prints