About
Chaotic Garden Photography and Design is owned and run by Carol Gregory
Taught by her father, also a keen photographer, Carol has seldom been without a camera to hand; from the first shaky double-exposures on an old Kodak box Brownie at her father's knee, through to film SLRs in her teens and twenties and on to digital cameras in recent years. However, it was the onset of digital photography and its freedom to experiment that allowed her love and enthusiasm for the craft to flourish once more.
When she moved with her family to live alongside the Peak District, she rediscovered the gritstone moors and limestone dales she had first encountered during her sojourn at Sheffield City Polytechnic. Here, she began to develop her own unique style and interpretation of the landscape, predominantly intimate and detailed images of its structure and form; a leaf caught in a current in the blue light of late evening, an ice-strewn river catching the glow of the sunset, the cavernous limbs of an old oak tree, the conversation of foxgloves! Elements of a landscape that most of us never even notice, Carol will turn in to art. She is also quite able to turn her hand to the broader landscape, but even then, somehow gives it an edge and a tension that has become something of a trademark.
These images are now made available to a wider audience through this website and through sales of fine art prints and cards at local exhibitions and craft fairs. She also offers tuition to individuals and small groups (please contact Carol direct for more information) and she is a tutor for Going Digital Photography Courses in the north-west (Peaks-Lakes Photography).
Thanks to Graham Nobles for these biographical notes and photo.
Taught by her father, also a keen photographer, Carol has seldom been without a camera to hand; from the first shaky double-exposures on an old Kodak box Brownie at her father's knee, through to film SLRs in her teens and twenties and on to digital cameras in recent years. However, it was the onset of digital photography and its freedom to experiment that allowed her love and enthusiasm for the craft to flourish once more.
When she moved with her family to live alongside the Peak District, she rediscovered the gritstone moors and limestone dales she had first encountered during her sojourn at Sheffield City Polytechnic. Here, she began to develop her own unique style and interpretation of the landscape, predominantly intimate and detailed images of its structure and form; a leaf caught in a current in the blue light of late evening, an ice-strewn river catching the glow of the sunset, the cavernous limbs of an old oak tree, the conversation of foxgloves! Elements of a landscape that most of us never even notice, Carol will turn in to art. She is also quite able to turn her hand to the broader landscape, but even then, somehow gives it an edge and a tension that has become something of a trademark.
These images are now made available to a wider audience through this website and through sales of fine art prints and cards at local exhibitions and craft fairs. She also offers tuition to individuals and small groups (please contact Carol direct for more information) and she is a tutor for Going Digital Photography Courses in the north-west (Peaks-Lakes Photography).
Thanks to Graham Nobles for these biographical notes and photo.