With the Southwest of England as home, Tas is an artist with a deep love for the natural world. She uses photography as her primary medium but enjoys adding artistic flourishes through digital illustrations. In future projects she would like to explore the incorporation of physical artistic elements in the form of paint and other art supplies to create an abstract atmosphere to her work.
Throughout her studies in Marine and Natural History Photography in Falmouth, Tas has explored a large array of photographic styles, techniques and stories. One consistency that is apparent through her work is the desire to create abstract art through her photography. Some ways in which she does this is by creating work with reflections, multi-layered exposures, or illustrations.
As her photographic practice developed, Tas found a strong cause for creating work: to increase the connectivity between children and nature. She believes it is essential to improve children's relationships with the natural world from an early age in order to develop a mutually beneficial relationship for both the children and the environment that will continue into adult life.
Since Tas was 11, she has assisted in primary school classrooms across an array of different schools. She carried out a mixture of activities such as working with select groups of children, taking photos for display boards, and generally acting as a helping hand for the teachers.
Her latest project was an activity book designed for Key Stage 1 children and their teachers, parents and guardians. This was produced to teach about woodland habitats in accordance with their science curriculum, but in a more creative and captivating way using photography and illustrations. With this project, Tas had the opportunity to spend a day with KS1 students where she could take control of the class and lead the students through some of the activities.
She believes her work has strong relevance to education sectors and has possibility to be used within NGOs to benefit both children and the environment. Being able to work with young children and help make a difference in their learning, as well as improve their relationship with nature is something that inspires Tas. She hopes to create further work of this genre and that there will be more opportunities to share her work with the younger audiences.