PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography is both a practice in its own right and an integral part of my wider work. It allows me to collect moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed: the way light falls across a room, reflections in glass, shifting shadows, fleeting colour or an unexpected encounter.
Rather than documenting the world, the photographs act as visual notes - gathered intuitively and often revisited months or years later. Some remain complete works, while others become the starting point for paintings, installations or publications.
Working with natural light and everyday subjects, the images explore memory, perception and the emotional qualities of ordinary experience. They ask us to pause, look more closely and notice the beauty that exists within the seemingly familiar.
Like the rest of my practice, the photographs are less concerned with recording what was seen than with capturing how a moment felt.
Seeking Shade, 2024 (detail)
Lace Hydrandeas
Cyan Shadows
BETWEEN SEEING AND REMEMBERING
What began as a simple curiosity became an unexpected discovery. Looking back through my iPhone photographs, I began to notice recurring relationships with paintings made months later. Similar colours, forms and qualities of light reappeared across both, despite no conscious intention to use the photographs as reference.
Between Seeing and Remembering pairs these images with paintings, exploring the subtle dialogue between observation, memory and making. Rather than illustrating one another, the photographs and paintings reveal how experiences continue to surface long after they have been lived, suggesting that the creative process often begins long before we realise it.
SEA & SKY
Created during daily walks along the Sussex coast, Sea & Sky is a quiet meditation on the changing relationship between light, weather and horizon.
Photographed over time using an iPhone, the images record subtle shifts in atmosphere rather than dramatic events.
Together they form a visual diary of repeated looking, revealing how no two skies, seas or moments are ever quite the same. The work reflects an ongoing fascination with the restorative qualities of landscape and the way familiar places continue to offer new experiences through careful attention.
Elle.Be.ing
Elle.Be.ing explores the shifting nature of identity through layered self-portraits created using multiple exposures.
Rather than seeking a single likeness, the images embrace contradiction, multiplicity and change. Figures appear and dissolve within one another, suggesting that identity is fluid rather than fixed, shaped by memory, experience and the many roles we inhabit throughout our lives.
Originally developed as one of several creative personas, the series has become an exploration of the many selves that coexist within a single practice. It reflects an enduring interest in perception - not only in how we see ourselves, but in how we are continually changing.
