Shelley Nott

Based in East Suffolk, Shelley’s growing reputation for her still life photographs comes from her interpretation of the traditional genre but incorporating modern day technology.

Using window light, each of her photographs can take many hours (or even days) to create. The natural light gives them a greater depth and exceptional colour. Shelley says “I only use the computer to do what I would have done in the darkroom when I used film. So what the viewer sees is a carefully constructed photograph with window light being harnessed to enhance the subject, often with the symbolism of the Dutch Masters. Although I now use digital photography I bring the practice and ethos I used when behind a large format film camera”.

Her practice is the fruit of her continuing research and development, which has taken her, so far, to Holland, Denmark and, of course, London.

Collectors of her work span the globe often mixing her photographs with still life paintings.