Andrew Turnquist

Artist's Statement

We are too often engulfed by our man-made world to the point where we become disconnected from the natural environment that has sustained us through thousands of years and allowed for us to survive and thrive.

My photographs remind us of the natural environment that we are forever a part of.

In a busy, disconnected world, my photographs transport the viewer out of our world of machines and busy-ness and into a natural environment where they can relax looking out over a still pond, or indulge our curiosity of the smaller serendipitous finds in nature, if we are aware enough to see them.

It is my hope as a photographer that my work will inspire people not just to appreciate nature captured in a print, but to make time to go beyond the print into the world of nature itself.