Arabella Packford graduated in photography from the University for the Creative Arts and is now making a career for herself. Living in Oxford but using this as a mere base, she is in between countries, photographing and working on commissions and has recently returned from South Africa. Her work revolves around beauty, landscape and space, and likes to confuse the boundaries between painting and photography. She works predominantly on a traditional medium format film camera, taking her time over producing a single image. She states that it is an exciting time for photography for her, as the medium is being accepted more and more as an art form, and people are starting to put photography on their walls in place of paintings.

If you are interested in the work here, or would like to commission her to produce a piece for your wall, please get in touch.

Contact: arabellapackford@gmail.com

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A Space of Mind

When people suffer from anxiety some feel enclosed and claustrophobic, describing the experience as feeling as though their surroundings are caving in. As a sufferer of anxiety in the past, I have searched for a means of controlling this.

When surrounded by space I feel a sense of overwhelming relaxation, a warm inner contentment. This infinite surrounding has a therapeutic affect on me. Environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich argues that nature goes beyond aesthetic enjoyment to include enhanced emotional wellbeing, reduced stress and, in certain situations, improved health. As a result it is recommended that we ought to go out into an open space at least once a week, but I have discovered that this is not always possible.

It is a struggle to find these empty spaces in the South of England as there are usually trees or buildings obstructing the horizon. This made me more determined to find these empty minimal horizons so that I could take a piece of space back home to reminisce over when feeling enclosed.

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