“My intention is to present nature being art, not as figurative landscape but as contemporary abstract painting.”

Jamie McHugh

NatureBeingArt.org

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The Fine Art Photographs of Jamie McHugh

I have been a photographer of nature’s body for 35 years. Somatic Expression classes are designed to reveal life evolving within the human body. Similarly, my photographs capture life unfolding outside of your own skin.

In the past two years I have exhibited throughout California, and was commissioned to create large-format images for a motel in Big Sur. I am pursuing getting my images, with their calming balance of movement and stillness, into hospitals and other healing environments to support bodies in distress.

I am intrigued by the creativity of biology, and how we can aesthetically explore our inner and outer nature. Photographing nature is a similar process to somatically exploring the body: focusing attention, feeling inner movement, exploring different angles and discovering something new. Both body and nature are complex, intelligent landscapes that require time and patience to understand. I unplug my modern brain, and slow down into body/earth time. The somatic tools of breath, sound, movement and stillness soften the boundary between body and environment, bringing me more fully into the present moment. By getting out of my thinking and connecting to my surroundings viscerally, I have a sense of returning to my roots as a primal being on a mysterious and magnificent planet.

This intimate exchange is what I want my images to convey.

See Jamie's photography at www.NatureBeingArt.org.

Jamie McHugh