MIEKE
DOUGLAS

The recipient of numerous photographic awards and recent accolades, Mieke Douglas is an internationally exhibited Fine Art photographer whose captivating images are stylistically bathed in painterly tones and atmospheric light.

A subject revisited over a number of ongoing projects, Mieke’s early series ‘Equine Landscapes’ is a beautifully photographed story that celebrates texture, light and colour. Depicted as mountains and valleys, the majestic landscapes are an intimate and surreal look at the equine form, a series of abstract contours and strong compositions framed in natural light. An exceptional series that embodies a sense of stillness and calm, Mieke developed the project over time. Through experimentation and dedication, the spirit and beauty of the animals are rendered through a gently abstract and dreamlike lens.

“I couldn’t get the entire horse in the frame, because they were housed in their boxes, so I experimented with conveying what I wanted to say, with parts of them - the curving lines of the musculature and textures of the hides - illuminated by the occasional ray of light. And then it became interesting. It allowed me to move beyond the technical and really find my voice and create something unique to me.”

-  Mieke Douglas