Hamiltons Gallery, London presented new work by British photographer Charles March from 4 November 2025 to 16 January 2026. Titled Sandscript, the exhibition showcases a body of work that continues March’s journey into abstraction, through images captured along the shoreline.
The exhibition presents a new series of minimalist photographs, each the result of patient observation. March captures shadows, lines and textures that become meditations on the natural world, where sea grass, fragments and fleeting marks on sand appear as calligraphic inscriptions, soon erased by the tide or blown away by the wind. Moving towards abstraction, the works recall the fluid brushwork of Chinese ink painting. Rather than expansive landscapes, they are intimate studies, closer to sketches or drawings.
Movement has long been central to March’s practice, with earlier abstract works created through the motion of the camera itself. In Sandscript, however, the camera remains still, and it is the subject matter that shifts, grasses bend in the wind, moving the sand, while fragments of detritus disappear almost as quickly as they appear.
Charles March says, “I want my pictures to create an impression, a feeling, by holding onto a moment in nature that would otherwise be lost as soon as it appears.”
Charles March, Sandscript Series 1 I, 2023-2025 © Charles March
