Born in 1978, Charlotte Taylor grew up in the landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds and the views which were to provide the visual and emotional springboard to her artistic career.

Formally trained in Fine Art at the City and Guilds of London Art School, Charlotte’s artistic photography draws on a natural creativity and ‘feel’ for her subject matter. Fascinated by shape, form, contrast and pattern formed in nature, she infuses the traditions of landscape art photography with a distinctive contemporary dynamic.

In her stunning new series of work, ‘Arboreal Cartography,’ Charlotte challenges and redefines preconceptions of landscape, scale and beauty.  

Charlotte explains, 'Arboreal Cartography records and represents the formation of beautiful natural landscapes, those often seen and not noticed. Each title includes a map reference underlining the juxtaposition between permanent location with fragile subject.

Captured complete and intact on medium-format film, using only natural light, these studies of time and place confront us with questions of mortality, decay and rebirth. Abstract and perfect natural forms vie for our attention with the destructive evidence of rain, wind and sun. 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.’

Charlotte Taylor’s seminal series combines her impressive technical ability and distinctive style with an unmistakably 21^st Century brand of natural glamour.