About
I am a London based artist working with early photographic and printmaking processes such as Cyanotype and Photogravure.
I originally trained as a figurative sculptor, and I still approach my work in a very sculptural way. I like to give the subjects the solidity and feel of a 3d object.
I love to play with scale too - from a tiny print that you can hold in your hand and examine, right up to the the increasingly large prints that I make - ‘monumental close-ups’ - where you can get lost in the tiny details of the hairs on a Poppy’s stem or the skin-like texture of a Rose petal.
To make Cyanotype prints I coat cotton rag paper with a light sensitive solution of iron salts and then leave it to dry in the dark. I then expose it to UV light under large format negatives, and finish up by washing the prints in water, where they develop their characteristic blue colour.
I also make photogravure prints, which are now done with a polymer coated plate, which is more environmentally friendly than the older methods. I transfer the photographic image to the plate, harden it and then ink it up like a traditional etching plate. The graphic effects and rich blacks work perfectly with the shadowy images and strong highlights I like to produce in camera.
I love the creativity of both of these processes. I think of them as offering a translation from the photographic image into a somewhat more mysterious and abstract representation.
Really that’s what I am fascinated with - to examine closely the simple things and look again at them in a different way.
Education/Exhibitions
EDUCATION
1982-1985 Maidstone College of Art, BA (Hons) Sculpture
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS
2017
Traders, Create Church St, 140 Church St, London
2020
First Prize in Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Alternative Processes and Honorable Mention Portraits
2025
Of Flowers and Swimmers, G99 Gallery / Vienna, Austria
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
ING Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
Bainbridge Open, The Handbag Factory, London
Summer Exhibition at The Gallery at Green and Stone, Fulham Road, London
Alternative Valentine Exhibition at Lido Stores Gallery, Margate
2024
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Arsenal, London
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Alchemy’ curated by ‘Thrown Contemporary’ OmVed Gardens, London
2023
Bainbridge Open The Handbag Factory, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Arsenal, London
2022
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2021
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
A Generous Space/Artist Support Pledge, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
Turner Contemporary Open, Turner Contemporary, Margate
6th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography Barcelona
PRESS
Work featured in ‘Your Daily Photograph’, ‘The Marginalian’, Outdoor Swimmer Magazine, B&W Photo Magazine and ‘Colossal’.
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