Peter Ranyard's River captures the beauty of a largely inaccessible part of New Zealand visited by the artist over a number of years. Ranyard is obviously deeply attracted to the sites pictured in the 28 photographs that comprise the exhibition. Each image is beautifully rich in topographical detail and this, aligned with a reverential awe for the power of the natural world, gives them powerful presence. Ranyard uses black in a particularly effective way. His blacks are dense and lush, redolent of a primeval past and of things no longer present. They are both colour and mood and act as purveyors of memory. The memories may initially be those of the artist and relate specifically to his chosen subject matter but it is a credit to him that viewers are invited (albeit extremely subtly) to move from his particular reveries to those of their own. Ranyard's evocative atmospheric landscapes clothed in his marvellous blacks are about memory and the power of the natural world to continually elicit responses from those who care to converse with it. They are about possibilities of loss, and about places once experienced but now remembered. They are also beautiful.
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