Lucinda Batchelor

The beautifully poetic French word for twilight is ‘l'heure entre chien et loup’, or ‘the hour between the dog and the wolf’. The phrase describes the approaching dark as a time when things move from familiar to wild, or when the failing light means it’s hard to distinguish between a dog and a wolf. This phrase feeds into my passion for nature photography and describes perfectly how light changes everything.

With this in mind I love to use natural light as much as possible to capture the perfect simplicity, ethereal qualities, patterns and atmospheres of worlds which interconnect with our own. I also incorporate as many environmental initiatives into my work as I can, from the subjects I choose to the suppliers I engage, always with the natural world in mind.

I have worked for celebrated artists whose pieces are included in the Royal Collection, and other work features in the National Portrait Gallery's collection in London.


Portfolio:

Leaves, Life and Photosynthesis

Most life on Earth depends on photosynthesis, the process captures energy from sunlight to produce oxygen. As the primary sites for photosynthesis, leaves manufacture food for plants which in turn nourish and sustain us all. Herbivores then obtain this energy by eating plants, and carnivores obtain it by eating herbivores.

Leaves provide us with so much, even after they fall they continue to feed the earth and the animals who live within the soil. Withouts plants, simply there is little life.

Leopard Plant Leaves 1 “Leopard Plant Leaves 1”

A still life photographic study of leopard plant leaves lying on handmade paper.

Giclee art print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper for sumptuously rich soft texture and depth.

Leopard Plant Leaves 2 “Leopard Plant Leaves 2”

A still life photographic study of leopard plant leaves lying on handmade paper.

Giclee art print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper for sumptuously rich soft texture and depth.

Leopard Plant Leaves 3 “Leopard Plant Leaves 3”

A still life photographic study of leopard plant leaves lying on handmade paper.

Giclee art print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper for sumptuously rich soft texture and depth.

Leopard Plant Leaves 4 “Leopard Plant Leaves 4”

A still life photographic study of leopard plant leaves lying on handmade paper.

Giclee art print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper for sumptuously rich soft texture and depth.

Dried Fig Leaves “Dried Fig Leaves”

Dried Fig Leaves on handmade paper.

Giclee print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper for sumptuously rich soft texture and depth.

Fig Leaves with Maple Leaf “Fig Leaves with Maple Leaf”

Dried Fig Leaves on handmade paper with single maple leaf.

Giclee print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper for sumptuously rich soft texture and depth.