I am curious about the world around me, and use my camera lens to explore what interests me with both a documentary and fine art approach. My special interests are landscape and nature in both Canadian and international locations. While I like to move from the big picture to a closer view, I am drawn again and again to the intimate and often abstract image that captures the essence of the subject and the intricacies of texture, line and colour.
Selected solo exhibitions
2008
- Hangman Gallery, Toronto, juried show, September 2008.
- Cobalt Gallery, Toronto, June 2008.
- Riverdale Art Walk, juried show, June 2008.
- CONTACT 2008 Toronto Photography Festival, cafeTaste, Toronto, May 2008.
- University of Toronto, ongoing from April 2005.
2007
- A Month of Photography, Art in the City, Mississauga, juried selection, Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, August-September 2007.
- Sherbourne Health Centre, Toronto, July-August 2007.
- CONTACT 2007 Toronto Photography Festival, Barrio Lounge, Toronto, May 2007.
- Balzacs, Distillery District, Toronto, April 2007.
Selected Group exhibitions
- The Summer Show: Grass, Sand, Water, Hangman Gallery, August 2008.
- 'camera works', Living Arts Centre, Laidlaw Hall Gallery, a juried show presented in partnership with Art in the City, September-November, 2007
- Winning Images, A Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Beach Photo Club, juried selection. The Papermill Gallery, Todmorden Mills, Toronto, October 2007.
- The Papermill Gallery, juried selection, Todmorden Mills, Toronto, July 2005.
Photo Essay Presentations
- Constructed Waterways: from lifeline to lifestyle, Presentation to the Beach Photo Club, October 2007
- Ecuador and the Galapagos, Presentation to the Beach Photo Club, Fall 2006
Photography books
- Costa Rica: Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Other Delights October 2008
- Birds of Costa Rica, July 2008
- Tree Markers, May 2008.
- Tiskita, January 2007
- Canal Contemplations, October 2007.
Memberships
- Canadian Association of Photographic Art
- Artists’ Network of Riverdale
- Beach Photo Club
Last updated: December 19, 2008
© Copyright 2004 Felicity Somerset