Glen Forster

Digital Photographic Artist

I hail from Northumberland and after taking a year out to drive to India and back I came to Cornwall, England, in 1970, where I worked as a commercial photographer near St Ives. In 1982 itchy feet got the better of me and I set off again, with my new wife, Gill, and my camera to drive from the Arctic Ocean to the bottom of South America, across both continents. As fate would have it, the Falklands war intervened and we became restaurateurs of one sort or another for the next twelve years.

I returned to England and to my original passion for photography, moving to Bodmin Moor in 2000. I now concentrate on my personal interpretation of my own photographs. The coming of age of the digital revolution has enabled me to combine both the scientific and artistic elements of my life. I get great satisfaction from using the computer which gives me the freedom to interpret the picture in differing ways, and create imaginative digital photographic art, unlike straight photography.

Both travel and photography have played a very large part in my life: different peoples and different places have always fascinated me. My Portuguese great grandmother has passed down a love of colour and form, and both are very important to me in my art. I exploit this in my images and it provides a “painterly” feel to my work. To see some examples of my work from around the world, just click on the fly-out menu from the ‘Image Gallery’ button.