George Irvine asks that people see this, his photographic exhibition, through the eye of a painter. He is a painter by training and initially simply used photographs to help in his teaching. But increasingly he found that he could create what he wanted through photography.

The 30 works on show are drawn from a phenomenal 25,000 digital images that Irvine has amassed over the last five years.

He describes his subject matter as “the overlooked, everyday and mundane”. He works with them to enhance and extend their personae, by using light colour and focus. Much of what is on show derives from the farm on which he lives and its outbuildings, fencing and objects lost, abandoned or found.

His approach – and the fact each piece carries only the title Untitled photograph and the year – encourages the viewer to embark on their own voyage of discovery and to use their own imagination in conjunction with Irvine’s.

The starting point for Untitled 2009 photograph (pictured right) is fencing where the metal has buckled and bent to reveal green grass beyond. By enhancing the colours and emboldening the wood and barbed wire that striate the piece, Irvine has created a strong, compelling image that takes one beyond the original subject matter.

His witty inversion of images works to great effect as in Untitled 2008 photograph where the inverted image of a water trough, filled with water that has iced over and become streaked with hoar frost, is translated into a cool waterfall slipping down a sheer granite-like surface into a magical swirling pool.

The energy and optimism of many of the pieces on show and the reflective quiet of others make this an exhibition that should not be missed.

The exhibition is at Art Jericho and continues until Sunday.