Mick THURMAN
It’s not what you look at that matters but what you see. H.D. Thoreau.
Mick is a photographer whose first forays into the art were less than conventional - shooting still pictures and video of skydivers using a helmet mounted camera. A keen outdoors person, Mick is as excited by ice on a car windscreen as by vast weathered mountain landscapes. His light-hearted and inquisitive nature leads him to produce quirky abstractions using digital media and the full spectrum of colour, often inverted. Inspired by the works of the old masters like Monet and Harry Callahan, Mick works much like a film photographer – thoughtfully and slowly – which leads him to create images that invite the viewer to stop, wonder and reflect upon our relationship with the environment in a different light.
Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
The inverse of the blue/grey ice crystals that form the frost on a car windscreen takes us to a whole new world - a place of line and form and depth that we could only otherwise imagine.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Funny but the lines and shapes of the ice on the car windscreen from which this image was made (in Luton, England of all places) should indicate there's the possiblity that there may be an ostrich around that's shedding its feathers!
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
In this image I see a Trilobite. These sea creatures first appeared in the fossil record some 520 million years ago and were thought to have become extinct about 250 million years later. Strange, then, that I would find one lurking on the windscreen of a car in Luton, England!
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
It's hard to believe that from the textures and patterns of the frost on a car roof box, a whole forest could arise.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Who said art nouveau is dead? No one seems to have told Mother Nature. Through her winter magic she seems to keep churning out her pieces, etching the classic style in car windscreens everywhere.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
It's hard to believe that from the textures and patterns of the frost on a car roof box, a whole forest could arise.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
It's a pity that this jewel, lying beneath the surface of the ice in a puddle near home, is merely a figment of my imagination.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
For me the beauty of this view of ice on a puddle at the back of Warden Hill in Luton, England lies in its geometry, and the nod towards tools of times past.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
This reminds me of a trip to the west coast of New Zealand's South Island and the view looking back from the seashore to the rising foothills of the Kahurangi National Park. I don't recall seeing any rabbits there though!
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Another of Mother Nature's attempts at art nouveau. Thanks to her ablity to create flowing lines and organic shapes within a severe but eccentric geometry, it took very little effort for me to lift this picture from the frost on a car windscreen.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Another of Mother Nature's attempts at art nouveau. Thanks to her ability to create flowing lines and organic shapes within a severe but eccentric geometry, it took very little effort for me to lift this picture from the frost on a car windscreen.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
The last, for now, of my efforts to show Mother Nature's penchant for art nouveau. For me this image brings to mind those famous lines by Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot "I am an imbecile. I see only half the picture", and Miss Lemon's response "I don't even see that."
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
On Your Doorstep
Sunrise seen through the coastal mist on the beach near Mablethorpe in East Lincolnshire, UK.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 42cm x 59.4cm
Edition 1 of 25
View over Loch Beinn a Mheadhoin in the Scotish Highlands
Artist: Mick Thurman
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 59.4cm x 84.1cm
Edition 2 of 25
An abstraction of birches on the shores of Loch Beinn a Mhedhoin in the Scottish Highlands.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 3 of 25
Every day from around 2:30pm a large group of red kites start congregating at Bwlch Nant Yr Arian, waiting for the feeding session which begins at 3.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Archival pigment print
Printed on textured paper
Image Size: 42cm x 59.4cm
Edition 3 of 25
Early morining mist floating across between the trees and across the water on Loch Benevean creates an etherial feel.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Still life: physalis
Artist: Mick Thurman
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Stand of trees
Artist: Mick Thurman
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Pathway to a tree
Artist: Mick Thurman
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Birches on the shores of Loch Beinn a Mhedhoin in the Scottish Highlands.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Archival pigment print
Printed on textured paper
Image Size: 42cm x 59.4cm
Edition 3 of 25
In my sojourn, so far, into the world of frost and ice this image is the only one that's not had too much treatment. Were it to be given a more formal title it would probably be 'riding the waves' for here I see the surf breaking and the ebb and flow of the tide.
Artist: Mick Thurman
Series: Frost & Ice, Patterns & Possibilities
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 3 of 25