A Butterfly is one of the most beautiful of all insects, conjuring up images of sunshine, the warmth and colour of flowery meadows, and summer gardens teaming with life.  We are charmed by their gorgeous colours and very delicate wings.

I am an artist based in London, England and have developed a photographic technique to produce Ultra High Resolution images of Butterflies and Moths, at  100cm x 100cm.

The detail is so fine that you can see individual scales, cells and fine hairs. These staggeringly beautiful creatures, in amazing colours, are stunning never-seen-before images on this scale. Printed onto Canson Baryta Photographique 310 gsm archival paper, gives the image a unique ‘painting’ like effect.

To be able to see these beautiful creatures at such a scale adds another dimension to how we see the world around us. The specimens photographed all came from licensed butterfly farms and died naturally.

Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation is warning that time is running out to save some of Britain’s best-loved insects, with the latest Red List assessment for British butterflies shows many beautiful native species are listed as “threatened”  or under “near threatened” with extinction from a myriad of problems including climate change, nitrogen pollution and landscape change.