About
My photographic practice began as a documentary portrait photographer working with analogue film, documenting people and places. Back then, I loved developing and printing my images and creating fine art prints in the darkroom. Having studied biochemistry at university, I have always been fascinated with the alchemy and magic that happens when different elements interact. The freedom to experiment with art and alchemy in the darkroom, for me are both mesmerising and liberating. My darkroom was sadly left behind with a house move nearly 20 years ago; enlarger and equipment sold and the complete switch to digital ensued. I love the possibilities that digital photography brings, the freedom to experiment still happens when I am behind the lens and I enjoy the unpredictability when working with multiple exposures and intentional camera movement.
It is just as important to me today to carry my creative process through to the final print. My love for the creative aesthetic has more recently lead me to once again explore traditional alternative processes of image making such as cyanotypes and also to using mixed media to craft and hand finish individual images.
An associate of the BIPP, my photographic artworks are held in several private and commercial collections.
Statement
As a photographic artist I am interested in the abstraction of time on our daily lives and the world around us. Inspired by the the vulnerability and fragilities of our natural world, my images explore a sense of space and movement, each dimension, subtlety and possibility becoming a dance - a suggestion of the impermanence of life and the transience of time. I often use multiple exposures and intentional camera movement to draw on a range of textures, forms and emotions. Further layering digitally and/or hand finishing with mixed media such as gold and silver leaf may be applied to complete individual photographic artworks.