With my No. 2 Gunning Etching printing press at my Cornish studio
“We have to go around the world to look at ourselves from behind., it’s not always the easiest journey, never the shortest one.”
As a photographer from an early age beginning with a Box Brownie I progressed through many analogue cameras, I spent many years progressing up to DSLR photography ultimately achieving my Associateship with the The Royal Photographic Society in 2011. I then became interested in other printmaking art forms learning how to combine my photographic imagery onto Photopolymer Etching plates from the West’s legendary John Howard Studio. I print these plates individually from my Gunning no.2 etching press from my studio.
I also use the cyanotype process with my images which originated in the 1840’s being one of the first non-silver technologies used to create photographic cyan blue prints.
As a Photo-Artist and printmaker living in West Cornwall, much of my inspiration is taken from the wild Celtic landscape that I have loved and lived in for most of my life. The coast, the sea and the moors, isolated places attract me the most where I can study and capture our natural world.
I am a member of Lizard Art Co-operative at Lizard Art Stableyard Gallery, situated in the historic Trelowarren Estate, Mawgan-in-Meneage, Helston, Cornwall TR12 6AF where my latest work can be viewed and purchased.
I have exhibited in London (Royal Albert Hall), Vienna, New Mexico, Bonn & Cologne,Germany and Nagoya Japan.
I am also represented by the photographic agencies ARCANGEL & ALAMY
