After years of travelling, Paul Moody eventually settled in Devon. Immersed in the landscape, his camera became a tool to connect, an eye to see and a way to belong.  The result is a striking collection of image-moments, from our local landscape and the natural world on the edge of Dartmoor.

Paul’s fascination with photography began in the early sixties. He bought his first camera from a junk shop for £2.10s. on a visit to Jamaica where his father was posted. At his ‘Blue Coat’ Liverpool boarding school he talked the headmaster into letting him turn an old laundry room into a darkroom.  He enlisted the help of the physics and metalwork teachers, built an enlarger and developing trays and started processing other pupils’ photographs, and of course, his own.

He left school, became a welder, worked for a rock band, drove trucks, renovated two cottages, invested in an ocean-going sailing boat and spent ten years sailing the Atlantic Ocean before settling in Devon and concentrating on photography.  He pragmatically thought of the transition to digital photography as a “tool to make stuff” and just like welding, treated it as “a means to an end.”

Of his work he says: “Like all photographers I look at that ‘decisive moment’ when a scene makes my mind clear away clutter and emotionally engage with the image. Sometimes it is a ‘wow’ moment like being winded but often it's a contemplative moment that makes me reflective and happy to just be. In all my past years of travelling, doing and observing, I must have taken billions of shots in my mind's eye.  Now is my time to print and share again what I see and, more importantly, feel about a sense of belonging.”

Green Hill is delighted to show Paul’s woodland and landscape work.

Click HERE to watch Paul’s NEW film featuring work in this Exhibition and information about his work and practice…