About
My photographic practice began as a documentary portrait photographer working with analogue film, documenting people and places. I loved developing film and creating my fine art prints in the darkroom, the freedom to experiment with art and alchemy, for me are both mesmerising and liberating. Having studied biochemistry at university, I have always been fascinated with the alchemy and magic that happens when different elements interact. My darkroom was sadly left behind with a house move over 20 years ago, however it is just as important to me today to carry my creative process through to the final print.
I enjoy the possibilities that digital photography brings and in particular the freedom to explore the abstracted unpredictability when working with multiple exposures and intentional camera movement.
I often combine photographic techniques that span both digital and historical processes and apply mixed media, enhancing a richness and depth in the creative aesthetic of the artwork.
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. Working intuitively behind the lens, 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.