The Portugal series is the result of a two week intensive travel photography workshop, my first experience of total immersion in my art form over such a period of time. While on this trip I sensed a major shift in my ability to ‘see’ – light and shadow provided shape and form to my surroundings in a way that I’d never quite grasped before. My eyes were dancing with excitement!

This body of work inspired musician Loreena McKennitt to engage my photographic services for the Canadian release of her album called ‘The Visit”. We went to Portugal together to capture the essence of her music.

Growing up in a rural setting, Elisabeth Feryn developed an agricultural perspective on life: the beauty of nature could be overlooked.  Since then, she has discovered the delicate balance of the natural world and its unending capacity to rejuvenate a tired or disgruntled soul.

Much as a painter constructs onto canvas a unique interpretation of the world, Elisabeth captures, then alters through post-production, a reality which reflects her own visions.

The Extrapolation series began with a commission from the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario – ten images from this series currently hang in Perimeter’s offices.

In conversation with others, in an attempt to understand her own life passages, Elisabeth Feryn has come to know that most people have stories of transformation. Out of these everyday epiphanies come images and metaphors: companions to memory.

The Transformation series is a result of collaboration between the subject as storyteller, and Elisabeth as explorer. This series of photographs is the product of several photographic sessions over a period of several months. Out of the process come the icons: the images of death, of transformation and of rebirth.