Art Contact was engaged to arrange a community art programme for the Mace construction site at 21 Moorfields.
Allan Forsyth
Nature is never quite still in Allan Forsyth’s world. Leaves shimmer, flowers appear to breathe, and fleeting moments unfold into immersive compositions that evolve with every glance. Working from his London studio, Forsyth creates richly layered artworks that blur the boundaries between photography, digital art, and experimental image-making, inviting viewers to experience the natural world through a renewed and heightened perspective.
Inspired by the intricate beauty and quiet drama of flora and fauna, Forsyth is drawn to the patterns, textures, and rhythms that often pass unnoticed. Rather than documenting nature as it appears, he transforms it, using colour, light, and movement to reveal hidden dimensions and evoke an emotional response. His work encourages a slower way of looking, celebrating both the complexity and fragility of the world around us.
Employing an expansive visual language, Forsyth combines analogue and digital photography with photograms, collage, computer-generated imagery, and extensive digital manipulation. Each technique becomes another layer in the creative process, allowing him to construct images that feel simultaneously familiar and dreamlike. His lenticular works introduce yet another dimension, responding to the viewer’s movement as images shift, ripple, and subtly transform. These kinetic pieces create a sense of life and energy, capturing the fleeting, ever-changing qualities of nature in a medium that is constantly in motion.
Forsyth often describes himself as “an artist that uses photography” rather than a photographer, reflecting a practice that places creative expression above technical convention. For him, the camera is only one of many tools used to realise an idea. Whether working with Victorian-era photogram techniques or contemporary digital processes, he continually challenges the traditional boundaries of photography, producing artworks that are immersive, evocative, and instantly recognisable. The result is a body of work that celebrates both innovation and imagination, revealing the extraordinary beauty that exists just beyond our everyday perception.
Categories:
- Photography
Mediums:
- Photography
- Photomontage
- Photograms
Subject Matter:
- Abstract
- Animal/Botanical
- Still Life
My work conveys my love of the drama of nature, seeking to expand the beauty of natural forms that we sometimes overlook in everyday life showing an extra dimension in his work.
Allan Forsyth
