About Bruce

Though a trained biologist, Bruce discovered and subsequently pursued the arts following a tour of European art museums. He has been a gallery owner, museum manager, art museum curator, art installer and picture framer. In 2001, Bruce's casual interest in landscape photography blossomed when he began to discover his "voice".

Artist's Statement:

By taking a deeply introspective approach to landscape photography, I am able to find hidden beauty within my subject matter. I am often guided by an emotional response to material that projects visual power, strong form and energy. These feelings extend beyond the thing being photographed and can be conveyed by pattern, repetition, texture or unique forms and shapes. Proper attention to the balancing of these features within the composition can reveal the landscape behind the landscape.

My images rarely conform to the traditionally favoured conventions of landscape photography, tending towards non-representation, minimalism and ambiguity of scale. I frequently use natural pattern and strong graphic elements to lead the eye through the image, though, contrary to the norm, not necessarily to some centre of interest. Patterns and forms themselves are often the subject and become the image. My work blurs the definition of what exactly a landscape is.

My introspective approach to landscape photography and the filtering of visual subject material through the nuances of my aesthetic, result in image interpretations that, though not always recognizable, are none-the-less straightforward and realistic.

"There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress and endless life. And the infinite treasures of such a matchless career are yours for the striving! The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! Whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh".

The Urantia Book: page 356