Hello! My name is Brad Carr, and I am a photographic artist and writer living and working in Wales. I have been photographing the landscape of Wales for the past six-and-a-half years and writing passionately about my life experiences that have led me to this place of creativity and deep healing. It brings me great pride to say that my photographs of these magical lands have recently been published alongside my writings in prestigious international magazines.

My primary mission through my art is to tell stories of the deep healing and transformation that the sacred landscape of Wales and spirit of Nature has offered me over the past few years. I exist to carry forth messages and ancient wisdom that is weaved between the trunks of gnarled Welsh oak trees.

I stand here today as a warden and messenger for the landscape that has been a sanctuary for me since I began the long and arduous journey to discover my creativity and find my true voice. I have realised over the past year, that this is, in fact, a universal voice and language that I speak.

A now-friend that goes by the name of David Watkins, once harpist for the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Welsh National Orchestra, called into the Derwen Garden Centre one day back in 2023 and fell in love with one of my photographs from among the trees at Gregynog Hall that had been turned into a greetings card. Not only did David strike an immediate resonance with my work and the deeper messages that I was sharing, but it also brought feelings of familiarity with his friend, the Japanese painter Tohno Kosei, whose work is famed for lining the walls of Buddhist temples across Japan.

David became the connecting piece for two artists living and working on different sides of the planet both of whom shared a similar reverence for their respective native landscape. Upon purchasing my card, David was told by my mother who worked in the Derwen about an exhibition that I was holding in Montgomery. He called in to The Old Bell gallery to meet me one afternoon and we struck an immediate kinship.

David has since introduced me to his friend in Japan, Tohno Kosei, who’s artistic interpretations of the natural world have deeply inspired me. I have had a distant affinity with Japan for a while, and it has always seemed as though the Japanese people revere Nature in much the same way that I do.

This mutual reverence for Nature was confirmed when I studied the works of the famed artist and proceeded to exchange letters with him across the world. The power of this wonderful artform quickly struck me when I received communication from him. I became apparent to me that photography is a universal language that crosses borders and breaks the limitations of the spoken word. It appears the people here in Wales hold a special place for Nature in their hearts in much the same way that people in Japan do. Perhaps we are not so different after all. In a world that seems intent on dividing itself into race, religion, and political stance, I hope that my photographs of Nature and accompanying words can stand to unite people under one umbrella and raise awareness for the healing powers of Mother Nature’s gentle touch.

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