Ian Westacott

Yggdrasil: in Norse myth, the ashtree at the centre of the cosmos; the world-tree To look at an Ian Westacott tree is to step through a portal. His trees are as powerful as any human portrait, but free of agenda. They are individuals, a forest of one, captured at a specific moment in time at some remote location in Scotland, England, Sweden, or Australia. Here are beings that have borne weather and the consequence of human actions with an endurance that would be tempting to anthropomorphise – though Westacott never...