A NATIONAL Trust property is hoping to light up winter with a contemporary photography exhibition.

Mottisfont, in Romsey, will open its 2015 arts season with Light-works: Contemporary Photography, featuring a selection of internationallyaccomplished artists.

The exhibition focuses on the effects of light.

Berlin-born Christiane Zschommler’s work is based on reflections in water with some of her images taken at the Basingstoke Canal between West Byfleet and Woking. It showcases the abstract qualities of light and beauty of the everyday.

Water has also inspired Susan Derges, who places photographic paper directly on to a river bed, exposing images to natural light. Her work explores separation from and connection to the natural world.

The moving image work Tremor uses digital technology to generate fictitious, haunting three dimensional forms reminiscent of caves, which examine our perceptions of landscape and space. It’s the creation of Finnish photographer Pekka Nittyvirta, who works with both traditional and digital techniques.

Chris Bucklow’s Guests are dream-like portraits of friends and acquaintances, which start as a life-size drawing which is used to make 25,000 pinholes in a large sheet of aluminium foil. It forms the front of a giant ‘camera’ with each pinhole acting as a lens, with sunlight recording the image.

The exhibition also includes camera-less photography by Garry Fabian Miller, a two-year project on the shores of Lake Michigan by Jane Fulton Alt, and monochrome images by Eddie Bonesire’s.

A Mottisfont spokesperson said they are looking forward to opening the new arts season with the exhibition.

They said: “We’re delighted to be showing work by some of the most interesting photographers around at the moment – it’s fascinating to see how they all use and respond to light in different ways. The images are beautiful and unusual, and I think they will really lift our spirits at the start of the new year.”

Light-works: Contemporary Photography runs from January 17 until April 19.

It coincides with the first in a new series of miniexhibitions, Art in Focus: People, which explores how people are represented in 20th century art.

For more information call 01794 340757 or go online at nationaltrust.org.uk/motti sfont.