Nature Unlocked

After years of travelling, Paul Moody eventually settled in Devon. Immersed in the landscape, his camera became a tool to connect, an eye to see and a way to belong.  The result is a striking collection of image-moments, from our local landscape and the natural world on the edge of Dartmoor.

Paul’s fascination with photography began in the early sixties. He bought his first camera from a junk shop for £2.10s on a visit to Jamaica, where his father was posted.

At his ‘Blue Coat’ Liverpool boarding school he talked the headmaster into letting him turn an old laundry room into a darkroom.  He enlisted the help of teachers, built an enlarger and developing trays and started processing other pupils’ photographs, and of course, his own.

He left school, became a welder, worked for a rock band, drove trucks, renovated two cottages, invested in an ocean-going sailing boat and spent ten years sailing the Atlantic Ocean before settling in Devon, concentrating on photography. 

Paul’s woodland and landscape work can be seen at Greenhill Arts in Moretonhampstead until June 19.