When gallery owner Patricia Baker-Cassidy invited amateur photographers to exhibit at Art Jericho, the result was far from amateurish. Though sadly not included is the excellent picture advertising the show: a close-up of a dandelion, so often overlooked as a mere weed, but here displaying its lovely water-lily characteristics. This is one of Baker-Cassidy’s own photographs.

All the photographs in the exhibition are no larger than A3, resulting in images or series of images that demand close scrutiny and thus provide the opportunity to become part of the world of each garden portrayed. Some are overwhelming, some tame; others beautiful, others crude and ugly; others focus on detail. Yet others focus on the essence of the garden’s inhabitants —such as in Andy Page’s series of three images Three Brothers & Their Gardens (i), (ii), (iii). The first features an open shed tidily packed with logs and wood and framed by autumnal and productive fruit trees; (ii) is a garden in snowy winter, bare bar a small shed and two dominant bins; (iii) celebrates high summer and someone who clearly loves herbs, as mint, chives, oregano and calendula crowd round a simple slatted table and chair.

Juliet Ralph captures the sheer beauty and intricacies of nature in close up. In Palm House she details the exquisite colour and striated patterns of a section of a large lily leaf and in Arid House she captures the strong towering structure of a desert succulent, spines judiciously protecting its plump leaves.

Tomas Germe works at the other end of the spectrum. Illustrated above, Friends shows an ugly and unlikely coupling of a model pig and a gross gnome against a background of downpipes and drab brickwork on a bed of uncomfortable gravel.

  • Tues-Sun, until September 17.