Rhiain is a British landscape photographer who lives in the Lot Valley. Growing up in an artistic family, she was educated in France and the UK, where she gained a Masters with distinction in Critical Theory and a diploma in horticulture from the RHS, refining her understanding of plant life. Rhiain studied black and white film photography before moving to digital. Rhiain’s recent collection of work, both a photographic and research project, centres around a small and mysterious local valley with a rich prehistoric, medieval, and agricultural history. Her work is part of a growing field of ecological photography that is in dialogue with ideas around the Anthropocene. She exhibits and sells internationally, has photographs in private collections, and takes commissions. As well as courses, Rhiain offers one-to-one creative workflow mentoring to support artists in developing cohesive bodies of work, to prepare exhibitions and to develop their artistic reach.
'Rhiain's incredibly supportive and knowledgeable, a gifted photographer and compassionate teacher.' NM November 2024
2025
Le Centre d'Art et de Photographie Lumière d'Encre, Céret, France: work selected by committee, March 2025
Solo exhibition, Galerie du Château, Saint Croix de Mareuil, France: curated by Jane Linden PhD and Jonathan Harris PhD 'Projets La Vieille Closerie', Reading a Landscape, April 2025, press release here
Lecture and discussion, opening, Galerie du Château, April 2025: What to photograph? How do we read a landscape photograph? What do we understand by natural? By historical? Do photographs tell the truth?
'Reading the Landscape', photography workshop, exhibition, April 2025
'Barcelona 1st International Conference: Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture', May 2025: work discussed in the lecture by art historian Jonathan Harris. Lecture here
Grant 'Goethe Institute, Culture Moves Europe': photographing the landscapes of Brussels in dialogue with rural landscapes; photographing the buildings where land use decisions are made, April 2025
Solo exhibition, Three Colts Gallery, London, November 2025
Works
France, UK, US, Canada, Ireland, Czech Republic, Belgium
2023/24
Château Grimard, Duravel, Lot; Galerie Rideau de Fer, Lot; Three Colts Gallery, London, UK; Galerie de Photo, Livres, Books et Company, Montcuq, Lot; Galerie d’Art Le Lieu-Dit, Calès, Lot; Galerie Le Tympan, Goujounac, Lot; Mairie de Montcabrier, Lot.
Articles
‘La Vallée de la Thèze, Histoire et Composition’,self-published booklet, Mars 2023
‘Photographing a Landscape over Time’, magazine en ligne On Landscape, n° 312, septembre 2024, www.onlandscape.co.uk
“…develop your unique sensitivity to the landscape building a cohesive body of work that showcases your point of view.”
