Sarah Morton

I'm Sarah Morton and I'm a Scottish photographer based in Kintyre on the west coast of Scotland. My work is very much informed by my surroundings which are dictated by weather, atmospherics and sea... a potent combination for photography. I work in both colour and black and white and often use texture and abstraction to transform my work into something more complex than a simple image. I'm not great with words, pictures are my way of communicating so I'm letting the wonderful Michael Hanna speak about my work.


"Sarah Morton is a landscape photographer with a background in art history who has exhibited around the world across Europe and in the United States, the Middle East, as well as South America. Recent exhibitions include New York Art Show 2025, shows with Artboxy in Berlin, Palma, Grenada, Switzerland, and Abu Dhabi, The Photo Space Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, Blank Wall Gallery in Venice and London, Illminster Art Center in England, as well as The Archway Gallery in Lochgilphead, Scotland. Sarah has been published by Contemporary Art Magazine and has won multiple recognitions from the Monochrome Awards.
Shooting with an analogue eye, Sarah captures sustained landscapes with intense focus and with digital manipulation which invokes ethereal and tranquil qualities. She enhances her compositions both through digital processes and capturing selective imagery during strategic timing and weather, such as revealing a forested road or path in the mist of the morning dew and fog or portraying the crashing ocean waves before a storm. Her works appear to have a gravitational element to the texture, as if her landscapes were being pulled by the forces of the moon. Some of her photographs appear painterly and all of them are quite powerful in revealing forces of nature through sustained winds, sfumato-like atmospheres, reflective high contrast bodies of water, and the mark of dusk.
Her compositions with their variation between high contrast depth of field and high saturation foreground reveals nature as an apparitional-type force full of character and a spirit of its own, rather than as a lifeless object. Sarah’s most poetic photographs tend to be her depictions of trees in formation similar to a garden. How she finds these locations remains a mystery as they appear imagined from the scene of a dramatic book rather than a landscape based in reality. Her integrative editing techniques, strategic cropping, and timing of day as well as weather combines the composition into a work of art reflecting deep philosophical musings and tendencies.
Sarah Morton is a powerful photographer who not only captures nature but also molds and shapes the landscape like a sculptor with fine marble. Her refined compositions reveal an artist in-tune with the tools of her camera as well as the computer as she manipulates her landscapes to have deep mysterious and ethereal qualities worthy of a description from an award-winning book. Sarah Morton is a force to be reckoned with regarding her photography which reveals not only a sense of inner-reflection, but also builds upon landscapes which seem to reveal a hidden narrative to be discovered by the viewer through dramatic lighting, intense atmosphere, and strategic location as well as timing of luminous realities."
By Michael Hanna for Phaedra Fine Art Magazine May 2025