Artist · Writer · Filmmaker
Painting, moving image and writing, shaped by attention to place.
The process starts with walking and noticing, spending enough time for the place itself to begin the work.
Current research · 2026
St David’s Head
An evolving body of work made through repeated visits to the Pembrokeshire coast: walking, filming, recording sound, drawing and taking material impressions from the land.
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The cirrus have come from that nowhere in the west
Poem fragment
Cloud Pool
A film poem made at dawn and dusk, where field recordings and landscape images are allowed to unfold slowly.
James Roberts is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in the Welsh Borders working across painting, moving image, sound, photography and text.
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