MAP Art - Eleanor Marriott

Eleanor has been taking photos for most of her life but it was a recent year spent travelling round Latin America that turned a hobby into something more compelling. The more photographs she took the more she felt drawn to try and capture what she describes as 'the poetry of life' being played out all around her. 'I found myself gradually tuning in to all the drama taking place. I couldn't help but notice scenes of happiness, fun, sorrow, hardship - emotions which I wanted to try and pass on through my photographs.'

She also finds herself inspired to zone in on items of beauty that sometimes people fail to notice. 'The camera lets me shut out all the clutter surrounding objects so that I can let their beauty stand-out - like corn drying in the sun in a hundred different shades of yellow; a neatly folded pile of brightly-coloured blankets; a child's patent leather shoes the colour of glace cherries; or the sand-sprinkled whiskers of a sea-lion.'

Her work has been featured in publications including Real Travel magazine and she plans to launch a range of related items such as gift cards and calendars through her company Chicken Bus www.chickenbus.co.uk.

For more information, commissions and sales... please call MapArt on: 0044 (0) 207 9160544 or Email: info@mapstudiocafe.com

A snowy day in London Woman with basket,
Guatemala Guatemalan huipiles Man in window,
Trinidad, Cuba Lady selling chillies,
Guatemala

Puerto Merino glacier,
Patagonia, Argentina Girl celebrating her
quinceañera
(15th birthday),
Havana, Cuba Vejer de la Frontera
rooftops, Andalucia,
Spain Semana Santa
participant, Jerez,
Spain Flamenca skirts,
Seville, Spain

Little girl in red,
Seville, Spain Child's flamenca shoes
Seville, Spain Guatemalan textiles Religious festival,
Cusco, Peru Semana Santa, Guatemala

Taking a nap in
Huaraz, Peru Woman and political
slogan, Guatemala Young Kogi Indian girl,
Colombia Young Guatemalan
girl Dozing man,
Guatemala

Shipwreck in Ushuia
harbour, Argentina Che Guevara mural,
Santa Clara, Cuba Woman with cigar,
Havana, Cuba Old woman in
San Juan,
Guatemala Guatemalan corn
drying

Shoe shiner in
Havana, Cuba Happy sealion,
Galapagos Islands,
Ecuador Sealion's whiskers, Galapagos
Islands, Ecuador Stilt street
entertainers,
Havana, Cuba Colourful blankets,
Ecuador

Heading home,
Bolivia Lago Atitlan,
Guatemala Woman with basket,
Guatemala Outside the village
store, Guatemala Embroidered textiles,
Guatemala

Child in religious
festival, Cusco,
Peru Cactus in
North Argentina Lago Atitlan,
Guatemala Sitting on a
Chicken bus,
Guatemala Feeding the birds in
Cadiz, Spain

Woman with fruit,
Trinidad, Cuba Man in doorway,
Trinidad, Cuba Woman in doorway,
Trinidad, Cuba Papier mache cars,
Havana, Cuba

Eleanor has been taking photos for most of her life but it was a recent year spent travelling round Latin America that turned a hobby into something more compelling. The more photographs she took the more she felt drawn to try and capture what she describes as 'the poetry of life' being played out all around her. 'I found myself gradually tuning in to all the drama taking place. I couldn't help but notice scenes of happiness, fun, sorrow, hardship - emotions which I wanted to try and pass on through my photographs.' She also finds herself inspired to zone in on items of beauty that sometimes people fail to notice. 'The camera lets me shut out all the clutter surrounding objects so that I can let their beauty stand-out - like corn drying in the sun in a hundred different shades of yellow; a neatly folded pile of brightly-coloured blankets; a child's patent leather shoes the colour of glace cherries; or the sand-sprinkled whiskers of a sea-lion.' Her work has been featured in publications including Real Travel magazine and she plans to launch a range of related items such as gift cards and calendars through her company Chicken Bus www.chickenbus.co.uk.
For more information, commissions and sales... please call MapArt on: 0044 (0) 207 9160544 or Email: info@mapstudiocafe.com


A snowy day in London	Woman with basket, Guatemala	Guatemalan huipiles	Man in window, Trinidad, Cuba	Lady selling chillies, Guatemala

Puerto Merino glacier, Patagonia, Argentina	Girl celebrating her quinceañera (15th birthday), Havana, Cuba	Vejer de la Frontera rooftops, Andalucia, Spain	Semana Santa participant, Jerez, Spain	Flamenca skirts, Seville, Spain

Little girl in red, Seville, Spain	Child's flamenca shoes Seville, Spain	Guatemalan textiles	Religious festival, Cusco, Peru	Semana Santa, Guatemala

Taking a nap in Huaraz, Peru	Woman and political slogan, Guatemala	Young Kogi Indian girl, Colombia	Young Guatemalan girl	Dozing man, Guatemala

Shipwreck in Ushuia harbour, Argentina	Che Guevara mural, Santa Clara, Cuba	Woman with cigar, Havana, Cuba	Old woman in San Juan, Guatemala	Guatemalan corn drying

Shoe shiner in Havana, Cuba	Happy sealion, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	Sealion's whiskers, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	Stilt street entertainers, Havana, Cuba	Colourful blankets, Ecuador

Heading home, Bolivia	Lago Atitlan, Guatemala	Woman with basket, Guatemala	Outside the village store, Guatemala	Embroidered textiles, Guatemala

Child in religious festival, Cusco, Peru	Cactus in North Argentina	Lago Atitlan, Guatemala	Sitting on a Chicken bus, Guatemala	Feeding the birds in Cadiz, Spain

Woman with fruit, Trinidad, Cuba	Man in doorway, Trinidad, Cuba	Woman in doorway, Trinidad, Cuba	Papier mache cars, Havana, Cuba