Sarah Morton
- Michael Hanna
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
Sarah Morton is a landscape photographer with a background in art history who has exhibited around the world across Europe and in the United States, the Middle East, as well as South America. Recent exhibitions include New York Art Show 2025, shows with Artboxy in Berlin, Palma, Grenada, Switzerland, and Abu Dhabi, The Photo Space Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, Blank Wall Gallery in Venice and London, Illminster Art Center in England, as well as The Archway Gallery in Lochgilphead, Scotland. Sarah has been published by Contemporary Art Magazine and has won multiple recognitions from the Monochrome Awards.
Shooting with an analogue eye, Sarah captures sustained landscapes with intense focus and with digital manipulation which invokes ethereal and tranquil qualities. She enhances her compositions both through digital processes and capturing selective imagery during strategic timing and weather, such as revealing a forested road or path in the mist of the morning dew and fog or portraying the crashing ocean waves before a storm. Her works appear to have a gravitational element to the texture, as if her landscapes were being pulled by the forces of the moon. Some of her photographs appear painterly and all of them are quite powerful in revealing forces of nature through sustained winds, sfumato-like atmospheres, reflective high contrast bodies of water, and the mark of dusk.
These commanding photographs reveal Sarah Morton as one of the most dynamic landscape photographers to ever grace the pages of the Artist Feature Catalogue. Her compositions with their variation between high contrast depth of field and high saturation foreground reveals nature as an apparitional-type force full of character and a spirit of its own, rather than as a lifeless object. Sarah’s most poetic photographs tend to be her depictions of trees in formation similar to a garden. How she finds these locations remains a mystery as they appear imagined from the scene of a dramatic book rather than a landscape based in reality. Her integrative editing techniques, strategic cropping, and timing of day as well as weather combines the composition into a work of art reflecting deep philosophical musings and tendencies.
Study In Green (pictured above) remains one of Sarah’s most monochromatic works. The piece reflects one of her ‘tree gardens’. These particular works may not be actual gardens but the way she captures these trees along with their chaotic foliage and ominous limbs reveals a dreary yet solemn atmosphere. Study In Green is full of dramatic effect with almost silhouette-type layout and capturing of light which sustains through the sfumato-like mist in the air.
Sarah Morton can be described as a powerful photographer who not only captures nature but also molds and shapes the landscape like a sculptor with fine marble. Her refined compositions reveal an artist in-tune with the tools of her camera as well as the computer as she manipulates her landscapes to have deep mysterious and ethereal qualities worthy of a description from an award-winning book. Sarah Morton is a force to be reckoned with regarding her photography which reveals not only a sense of inner-reflection, but also builds upon landscapes which seem to reveal a hidden narrative to be discovered by the viewer through dramatic lighting, intense atmosphere, and strategic location as well as timing of luminous realities.
