IT’S TIME FOR AN UPDATE! It’s been a while and I would like to update you on some changes! Recently I have taken on a new big project that involves hospitality and growing our existing family business called Kings Grant. It’s also meant that I have had to redirect some parts of my life.
I’m still very much of an agricultural photographer and continue to do work in this line as well as commercial photography for business. But there is much more…
This new project is an exciting project for me in that it requires me putting all my life experience into practice. From being a chef, to my photography and writing and how it serves marketing and growing a business, to being exposed to and involved in agriculture and how that links with what we plan for Kings Grant in the way of farming and supporting local farmers, to travel and living in different countries and how that exposed me to diversity and meeting people from all walks of life. I believe the universe has conspired in the most brilliant of ways…it’s a project that pulls it all together!
On that note, I’d like do the same on this website, blog and across my social media sites. I’d like to use this space to share with you the full bouquet of what I do and what inspires me – from the agriculture and commercial work I continue to do, to social documentary photography and portraiture, to travel and landscapes. I’d like this to be a space that I can fully express myself and share with you my art and what I see.
These photographs are all of Kings Grant, my new venture. Kings Grant is in the Ixopo area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It’s a beautiful, peaceful destination with a rich history. It was once the supply farm for the neighbouring Mariathal Mission and the St Mary’s Seminary and was built by German Trappist Monks. These days it operates as a hotel, restaurant, museum and conference centre and is surrounded by lush farm lands in the southern KZN Midlands.
Lianne Ashton Photography 