Glen Cowans is a unique and passionate photographer. His inspiration is our ocean. His subjects are the breathlessly beautiful life forms that live there.

Cowans was born in Western Australia and developed his passion for the ocean and all that it holds when he began snorkelling at the age of ten. His interest in photography began in his early twenties but it wasn't until 1995, during his first lengthy ventures into scuba diving, that he began capturing images of the ocean through his photography. In March 2005, he made the turning point decision to devote his life to what he loves... underwater photography.

Today, with 34 exhibitions behind him, Cowans is taking photography to a new level by bridging the gap between photography and art. His philosophy is to allow Nature to be the artist and let the seascapes, shapes, colours and life forms of the ocean create the masterpiece.........and masterpieces they are. Cowans' work offers viewers a rare experience, one where we can contemplate the wondrous life found in our underwater world. His lens is our microscope, exposing colour and species with a complexity and sculptural form normally invisible to the naked eye. The resulting works from his "underview collection" have been warmly welcomed into contemporary and traditional spaces alike.

The Contemporary Limited Edition Canvas Prints are a larger than life selection of photography limited in edition to either 50 or 75 of each image. 'The theme is the frivolity and beauty of nature underwater... here nature itself has been the artist and I have simply attempted to capture and reproduce as accurately as possible, nature's masterpieces in a form that can be accepted and admired above water. Every image is printed using the latest archival quality pigment onto canvas. These images intend to show the amazing detail of the minuscule, featuring subjects as diverse as fish only 1cm long, the minute detail of coral, fragile tube worms and anemones or the patterns of fish scales and fins and whilst the list of subjects goes on, it gets bigger all the time as new subjects reveal themselves to me'

Based in Fremantle, Western Australia Cowans has the benefit of the amazing West Australian coastline providing him with an incredibly varied source of underwater life. Much of his work is therefore uniquely Australian however he also strives to visit as many world wide dive locations as possible.

Aspects stocks a select range of Cowans Limited Edition Canvas Prints, open edition mattboarded prints and his gorgeous book 'Beyond the Edge'