“David Batchelder's images depict nothing more than small sections of beach, which in theory every holidaymaker could see. But nobody sees what Batchelder sees, because the artist is a practised observer. Over the years he has made thousands of digital exposures.”

He uses the camera not to picture more clearly what we already know, but to discover and catch what we have no idea exists, sharing an inexplicable, ambiguous, imaginative and odd world of magical visions.