Ian Phillips-McLaren is a British fine art photographer, artist, and educator based in London and working across the UK. His multidisciplinary practice blends analogue photography, alternative photographic processes, mixed media, and sound — combining traditional craft with contemporary fine art vision.
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British Fine Art Photographer • London • Alternative Process Specialist • Artist & Educator
British artist and educator working across photography, painting, and printmaking, exploring memory, identity, and the materiality of image-making.
Through projects such as A Moment’s Existence and Fractured Whispers, I combine analogue photography, hand-made materials, and mixed-media processes to create layered, tactile work — reflecting on transformation, mortality, and the subtle relationship between the physical and symbolic.
Fractured Whispers / In the ancient Celtic and Atlantic rainforests of the west of Scotland, the sense of time feels altered. These are places where light filters slowly through dense canopies, where weather settles into the land, and where the boundary between history, myth, and lived experience feels unusually thin.
Self & the Other / This ongoing series of self-portraits explores the construction of identity through the lens of ancient Roman portraiture. Blending self-portrait photography with classical references and draws on theories of the self and the other — exploring how identity is shaped through cultural ideals, memory, and inherited visual forms.
Beyond The Edge / Beyond The Edge began unexpectedly one New Year’s morning when a thunderstorm drifted in over breakfast. Coffee in hand, I felt ready for whatever the year might bring, so on impulse I grabbed my camera, jumped in the car, and followed the storm. Growing up in
The Burn, Glen Nant, from the series Fractured Whispers — gum bichromate print exploring the Scottish Celtic rainforest.
Craft. Vision. Legacy.
British artist and educator working across photography, painting, and printmaking, exploring memory, identity, and the materiality of image-making.
Rooted in analogue photography, alternative printing, my practice embraces hand-crafted processes, precision, and the enduring value of physical prints and objects.
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Through photography, painting, sound, and sculptural forms, I create fine art work that explores memory, myth, perception, and transformation — often drawing on Jungian psychology and material experimentation.
With nearly four decades in fine art photography and education, I offer mentoring, workshops, and one-to-one guidance from my London base, supporting photographers and artists who want to deepen their craft, develop meaningful work, and refine their creative voice.
London Fine Art Photographer & Alternative Process Artist
I offer mentoring & workshops in analogue processes, salt printing, and creative development.
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