Paul Clarke (born 1959) is a landscape photographer and award-winning graphic designer and art director now based in Southern, England. Self-taught, inspired by a handful of contemporary Dutch and German woodland photographers after leaving London in 2010 for the Surrey Hills bordering West Sussex and Hampshire. Aspiring to make his living this way, but at this point is happy to be “At home in the forest but never quite out of the woods”. 

For Paul, shooting in the quiet of the forest there is an awareness of intimacy, of unique and solitary moments shared that he looks to convey in the work, often combining and editing images to present another view of a secret, mood, moment of anticipation or a sense of movement.

Artist and photographer Terry Cripps observes; “The picture is not over when you have pressed the shutter. Paul’s work shows a mastery of creative editing, using the photograph as a beginning, as a canvas to later add atmosphere and a sense of storytelling. A quiet corner of a glade has mystery, one can almost smell the undergrowth and the leaf mould.

Comparing Paul’s approach to that of Ansel Adams which, whilst very beautiful and packed with energy through his mastery of B/W was never the less static, where Paul’s work has an air of something is about to happen.

I once spent several days trying to unravel his technique and gave up.
What looks so straight forward is quite the opposite.​​​​​