Buttercups and Cranes – London Gateway Port in Black and White

Buttercups and Cranes – London Gateway Port in Black and White captures a striking contrast between fragile wildflowers and towering industrial forms. In the foreground, buttercups sway gently in soft focus, their presence ephemeral yet resilient. Beyond them, the vast skeletal cranes of London Gateway Port rise like sentinels on the Thames Estuary, symbols of commerce, strength, and transformation.

This monochrome photograph brings together two worlds that rarely meet — the delicate rhythms of meadowland and the monumental machinery of global trade. The black and white treatment heightens the interplay of texture and form, drawing attention to the shifting balance between nature and industry.

The work invites you to pause and reflect on landscapes that are neither wholly pastoral nor purely industrial, but a conversation between both. It speaks to the way memory, change, and perspective shape how we see the places we walk and live. This is an image of tension, but also of balance, where beauty persists in unexpected juxtapositions.

Size: 610 x 406 mm (24 x 16 inches) including white border.

This work is available as:

Open Edition
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Unique Collector’s Edition (1/1) - £1840
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