Photographs play an important role within James's practice through combining found and made imagery, and documenting experience. As with collaged and assembled pieces, many seek to layer and interconnect imagery to explore visual and contextual relationships, particularly with regards to landscape, natural history and the body/senses.

               Bird House (Digital Image)  2009                      Bird (Digital Image)  2009          

The primary focus of James's work in art and ecology, is the act of exploring materials and environments through sensory exploration and making. Such investigations may then also lead to photo and video based works.

Through visiting a particular place, often locally to his Wiltshire home, and exploring the relationship of the made object to these surroundings, he can continue to investigate its environmental and bodily context. New layers of meaning can be uncovered by the meeting of work and place, furthering the dialogue between person and landscape, and informing future artwork.

                                          Belonging, 2007       Digital Images from Forest series         Dragonfly, 2009

During collaborations with another artist or group, James looks at how different media  can be combined to share ideas and working methods, using movement, constructed artworks, sound and projection of a photo or video to explore connections between disciplines, individuals and their local environment.

                                           

                                            
Inside Out (Shirt)      Digital Images 2006        Inside Out (Vest)



Video Still from Mask Dance  2002                        Video Still from Singing Ribbons  2002 

      Designed and directed in collaboration with 'The Messy Rainbow Glitter Show'
 for Reach Inclusive Arts   (Produced by Iona Fabian)

Watching the Cradle                                   Held (Bella)       

          Digital Images from transparencies 1996/2008