In my artistic practice I have two distinct approaches to lens-based image making.
The Abstract Collection
I highlight how the built environment can be reinterpreted through abstraction. By reducing architectural structures to their essential elements, I open a dialogue about perception, imagination, and hidden rhythms.
My compositions become less about place and more about perception. I am drawn to the moment a photograph loses its purpose and becomes pure composition: Colour, shape, and geometry become traces of something once solid.
I deconstruct and then reform the images. Instead of corrective gestures, post‑production offers a way of unmaking and remaking space — bending lines, isolating rhythms, letting geometry drift into abstraction. What remains is a constructed image that feels at once familiar and unfamiliar. Colours and saturation gently compliment or aggressively clash with each other. Areas of white or blank space function as structural silences.
These images sit as alternate versions of the built world, glimpses of forms that exist just beyond the edge of recognition.
The Cyanotypes
As a counterbalance to my digital work, I retain a relationship with traditional photography. Producing Cyanotype prints using one of the oldest processes in photographic history. High quality watercolour paper is hand coated with a light-sensitive emulsion made from iron compounds. A negative version of an image is placed in contact with the emulsion and then exposed to ultraviolet light for several minutes.
The result is an amazing Royal blue image with absolutely no ink involved. The final piece will have an (often unpredictable) tonal range from Prussian blue to Turquoise. I then add secondary tones using organic materials, such as natural vegetable dyes from the garden, to compliment the blues. The process combines traditional photographic skills with eco-friendly modern techniques.
The beauty of Cyanotypes is that each print is handmade and therefore unique
Based in Wiltshire I have exhibited throughout the South West of the U.K.
I show my work monthly at the Bath Contemporary Arts Fair, Green Park Station,Bath
Individual pieces of my work have been shown in exhibitions at:
The RWA, Bristol
44AD Artspace, Bath
The Salisbury Museum
The Old Town hall gallery,Trowbridge
Thelma Hulbert gallery, Honiton
Black Swan gallery, Frome
Mount house gallery, Marlborough
The Pound Arts centre, Corsham
Swindon Museum & Art Gallery
Trowbridge Artists network,Trowbridge museum
A selection of my work has been purchased by Wiltshire council (who have also commissioned special projects)
Collaborative exhibitions with other Artists in Bath, Frome, Malmesbury, Cirencester and Newbury
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