“There is opportunity to found beauty everywhere; you just need to change the way you look for it”
Jan 28, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS DANIELLE WOODWARD
PHOTOGRAPHS LEANNE BRACEY
“I love nature, but I also want people to look at the beauty of the obscure, the decaying”
“One of my followers sent me a message saying:‘When I look at your pictures, it’s like I’m having therapy’”
righton-based artist Philippa Stanton works mostly from her garden shed; it is a cosy, cluttered creative space, with the earthy scent of wood and dried paint mixed with paper and fresh air wafting in from the garden outside. ‘I love tending to the garden early in the morning,’ she says. ‘Weather permitting, I usually go for a bike ride afterwards, around 7am, either in the countryside or along the coast. Then I need to have a few hours to myself before I start anything that feels vaguely like work. My
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