Edible Idioms

Exploring idioms through the use of intricate food illustrations, combined with individually designed type face for each image and photographically interpreted to complete the idea.

Beth Galton is a photo-based artist, with an educational background in the natural sciences and 30 years of experience as a professional photographer in the editorial and commercial world. Her personal practice brings these elements of her history together, using them to explore her world through the nature of time and organic forms. Galton collects objects, items from her past and botanicals which she often manipulates and dries to constructs still lifes. These assemblages and portraits connect the viewer to the ecological cycles of the natural world, including their own aging and mortality.