Cig Harvey’s (b. 1973) photography is devoted to the question: “what it is to feel?” The British-born artist and writer now lives in Maine, USA, working in large-scale colour photography and creative non-fiction. The following pages are replete with images from her latest books, Emerald Drifters (2025) and Blue Violet (2021), which are dedicated to the natural world and finding magic in everyday life. Here, Harvey’s signature subjects – flora, domestic interiors and figures in the landscape – take centre stage. Characters stand waist- deep in ink-blue rivers under moonlight. Hands clutch blooming clematis flowers, reach out for thick red velvet and emerge from lush green shrubbery. Elsewhere, eyes peer from under shiny emerald pigment. The scenes are designed to engage all five of our senses, brimming with colour, light, shadow and texture. Crucially, they ask us to find joy and wonder in the small day-to-day moments that might otherwise pass us by. cigharvey.com | @cigharvey
Image credits:
1. Cig Harvey, Pressed Lilacs (My Mother’s Hand). Image courtesy of the artist.
2. Cig Harvey, Emily in the River, (2019). Image courtesy of the artist.
3. Cig Harvey, Petunias, (2020). Image courtesy of the artist.
4. Cig Harvey, Pressed Lilacs (My Mother’s Hand). Image courtesy of the artist.
5. Cig Harvey, Three Apricots (Wet), (2023). Image courtesy of the artist.
6. Cig Harvey, Full Moon, (2021). Image courtesy of the artist.
7. Cig Harvey, Emerald Coat, (2019). Image courtesy of the artist.
8. Cig Harvey, Boltonia Asteroides, (2019). Image courtesy of the artist.
9. Cig Harvey, Clematis (Emily Clutching), (2021). Image courtesy of the artist.
10. Cig Harvey, Emerald Eye, (2024). Image courtesy of the artist.
11. Cig Harvey, Azalea Bush, (2023). Image courtesy of the artist.
12. Cig Harvey, Hand (Pointing). Image courtesy of the artist.
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