Digital Photography by Jason Hodges |
Jason's work is influenced by the landscape of Herefordshire and he is a member of two local groups: Hereford Art & Crafts society and Artistree. Born and raised in Hereford, Jason graduated in 1992 from Sunderland University, after studying a Fine Art Degree in painting, printmaking and photography.
Since 2002 Jason has developed new work using digital photography and print-making technology and has exhibited during H art events in Herefordshire. In 2005 he was commissioned to produce a series of work for the Hereford Festival of Fungi at Hereford City Gallery.
Dinedor Hill and The Relief Road
"I became interested in the site for many reasons, I found it inspiring
as an artist and was drawn to it by the majestic presence of the hill,
living very close to Dinedor I had the luxury of access to the site at
anytime this I felt would give me freedom to do my very best for the job
in hand.
My first step in documenting the area was to walk around the hill to gauge
which view points would give the most interesting photographs my intention
was to highlight the fact this is an area of outstanding beauty.
I decided quite early in the project to embark on a series of “portraits”
of the hill and its surrounding landscape that would capture some the
character of this beautiful Herefordshire landscape."
Dinedor Hill in Winter (February 2006)
"I was taken with the idea the hill was historically the site of
Iron Age hill fort I felt this image showed what a formidable position
this would be to attack also walking up the hill proved this, when the
snow fell it removed much of the detail from reducing the landscape to
its strongest features creating a minimal simplicity"
Dinedor Hill from Bartonsham (May 2006)
"This picture is taken twenty yards from my bedroom
window; I can hear these cows in the morning as I wake up, the day I took
this picture I was returning from a very unsuccessful art and craft show
as I was approaching the house I saw this sky still dark from the rain
and the sun had just come out and spread a golden light on the ground
and illuminating the cows, I had been waiting for this kind atmospheric
light for months and here it was, I quickly ran home to get my camera."
Dinedor Hill from Bullinghope (July 2006)
"While I was photographing the Church at Bullinghope I followed a
public footpath through this field it was taken on a Sunday afternoon
in glorious sunshine finding the thistles was an opportunity I couldn’t
resist; they made a great compositional device and gave a pastoral feel
to the image."
Dinedor Hill from Bullinghope v2(July 2006)
"This is the only enhanced picture in the exhibition, I have played
with the colours to add a more painterly feel to the image this was part
of a conceptual approach for the project; I was going to produce five
versions of the Bullinghope picture starting with the original changing
each one in series till the final image was obliterated, this conceptual
process was a metaphor for human disruption of the landscape.
In the end I felt that a landscape documentary was more of an honest approach
to take, it was only when going through my archive I found I had more
than enough suitable material to do this."
Dinedor Hill from Green Crize (August 2006)
"Landscape has many changing moods and this dark sky created an intense
back drop for the hill whilst it was being lit up by the sun, the houses
on the slope give an indication of scale and presence of the community
spread around the hill.
The picture has a symbolic significance for me as a place of poetical
beauty under threat."
Jason
CPRE Herefordshire is a registered Charity: No: 213951. The Campaign to Protect Rural England exists to promote the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of rural England by encouraging the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country.
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