Since postgraduate study, I have divided my time between art and design education and personal practice . With a background and first degree in fine art (painting) my interest in making photographs has developed over time: initially supporting work with other media and subsequently as outcomes in their own right.
Alongside formal and atmospheric considerations, I am largely inspired by the power of the trace, the fragment and the unresolved to provoke the imagination in unexpected ways. A longstanding preoccupation with the found mark has led to work which observes, interrogates and documents banal and often overlooked surfaces. Residues of human and other activity present in domestic, natural and urban environments are areas of particular interest. They suggest all kinds of narratives and stimulate broad lines of enquiry. Whether literal or metaphorical, responses to these encounters open up new, personal ways of reading the environment, and of experiencing, deciphering and relating to landscape.
My work has been shown around the UK and internationally.
