Growing up in England, fine art photographer Ellie Davies spent afternoons frolicking in the forest with her twin sister, Rebecca — they played hide-and-seek, got blissfully lost in the dimness, cycled and foraged for wild mushrooms and exotic plants.
That magical landscape is now both Davies' artistic inspiration and practical studio space — a place where she still gets lost, but now in her artwork. Using handmade sculptural elements, she superimposes dramatic narratives onto the natural landscape, resulting in deceptively simplistic yet mystical and fairy-tale-like images. Her 2012 series, "Dwellings," depicted dense, cave-like huts made of sticks and leaves nestled into the trees; "Come With Me," in 2011, featured elegant pathways of painted leaves and paper, snaking through the dirt.