Gordon Butler
photography
I live in Whitstable, it’s my base for exploring and photographing the coastal regions of south-east England. My passion is photographing landscape and recording its influence and impact on us, encouraging us to consider our relationship with our environment.
Recently-exhibited work appears below, to see more of my photographs, please visit my web site.
recent exhibitions
DIG GALLERY: THE GROUP SHOW – at the Pie Factory, Margate
23-29 October 2024
littoral landscapes – at The View, Whitstable
a joint exhibition with Nick Price
coastal visions – at The View, Whitstable
… a little more about me
I was born and educated in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, graduating from art school in the late 1970s with a BA in 3-D Design. In 1980, I moved to London to work as a systems programmer for Prestel – an early precursor of the internet. Subsequently, I worked as a graphic designer, a design manager and as a brand manager in emerging new media. In 2002, I quit corporate life behind to run my own web-based company. Ten years later, I exited the company and sold my shareholding. Leaving London in early 2013, I moved to the coast to concentrate on more creative endeavours and I now live in Whitstable.
Photography has been a life-long enthusiasm for me. Since the late 1970s I’ve carried a camera wherever i go. My passion is photographing landscape and recording its influence and impact on us. Our relationship with our environment is complex. We are shaped by it and we shape it. Our perception of landscape, our viewpoint, is constantly modified by the shifting balance between these influences and the aim of my photography is to encourage the viewer to contemplate this relationship.