Spirit of Place - a project in progress

Churches, chapels and hermitages are often found on edge lands - on remote coastlines, high in the hills, tucked into valleys or standing quietly within vast, open landscapes.

Spirit of Place grew from my fascination with these places of contemplation, and with the relationship between the buildings, the landscape and the sense of something that seems to exist beyond what we can see.

I am drawn to places that feel charged - places that have attracted people for generations and seem to hold a particular atmosphere or presence. Many sacred sites are connected to older landscapes, ancient pathways, springs, stones and, in some traditions, ley lines: unseen lines or currents believed to connect places of spiritual or energetic significance.

Whether or not we can explain this feeling, there is something compelling about arriving somewhere and sensing that it matters. Perhaps it is the landscape itself, the history held within it, or the layers of human experience that have gathered there over time.

The photographs explore these quiet encounters between faith and the elements, small human structures set against powerful landscapes, places of shelter and reflection exposed to wind, weather and time.

For me, Spirit of Place is less about documenting religion and more about exploring our instinct to seek out places that make us soak up the landscape. Places that hold memory, stillness and energy. Places where the landscape seems to speak, and where the boundary between the physical and the spiritual feels as friendship.