Chromogenesis: Print from film

Photography is my first language, its materials and processes the tools in which I feel the most freedom to play. My concern is with the elemental, I make images that, while abstract, are also somehow familiar. I work with colour photographic films and papers but I use only chemistry and surface, allowing the natural characteristics of fluid motion to find their natural form. I am looking for an emotional resonance that embodies the beauty that exists in those elements of nature that we each find in a singular moment of personal connection. The striations of colour running through rock, the hues of the late sky reflected in the surface of wind ruffled water, layers of lichen, their feathered edges against the dark bark, the streak of light breaking under a stormy sky, a microscopic organism, fluid pulsing through channels, all infinite in their variation. The works presented here are from my recent residency at the University of Derby School of Art. I have worked experimentally, directly onto outdated colour transparency and negative film using only photographic chemistry.The resulting film has been reproduced as unique, large-scale c-type prints using a mural enlarger (Derby is the only University that has one). The scale transforms these images into worlds, spaces to explore and get lost in.