"MOMENTS OF STILLNESS BENEATH THE WAVES."

My work is shaped by time spent in and around the water. Whether through photography or painting, I return to familiar places, light, and stillness, observing how presence settles when movement slows. 

Underwater, attention changes. Breath is measured, motion is deliberate, and the world reveals itself gradually. I approach my subjects with patience, allowing animals and environments to exist without interruption or spectacle. The camera becomes a way of staying rather than taking. 

Some of the photographic work is digitally edited to reflect the mood of the moment as it was experienced, while my paintings remain grounded in direct observation and hand-made process. Across both, the focus is not realism alone, but the quiet relationship between body, water, and time. 

The work asks you to slow down and stay a while.

-Missie Stevenson

GENTLE TRAVLERS OF THE DEEP

This short underwater video shows me photographing turtles while my husband films. We work as a team—he documents, I observe and make the image. The footage was captured on an island that has long personal and creative significance to us and reflects the quiet, unhurried way this work is made. The tone is intentional: calm, steady, observational. No narration needed—just presence, light, and movement.