Like many people, there have been times in my life when a moment of contact with nature has had a profound effect.

In trying to understand why these moments have such impact, I began to look at our historical interactions with wildlife and wilderness.

For much of our past , our interactions with wildlife was to do with hunting: in order to be successful, we had to have a deep understanding of the wildlife around us.

Over time this was replaced with a curiosity for the world and our place in it. As different cultures have different interpretations of were we fit into the world, this has quite varied consequences for wildlife and wilderness.

With changes to our climate happening all around us, our connections to our world, and our impact on it, and on other creatures living in it, are under greater scrutiny than ever before.
This raises the question, if this amazing diversity of life were to be reduced or vanished, what would that do to us?

If we lost the creatures and wild places that we share this small world with. I believe we would suffer - physically, spiritually and emotionally - in ways that we can't begin to imagine.

I found that this connection to nature already had a name – it’s called "biophilia".

The images and artwork are part of my continuing journey to understand this.