I am an artist working with photography and digital collage.
My photography captures both natural and urban landscapes, from ancient sites to edgelands, and derives from solitary walks in nature or psychogeographical wanderings in cities. I am interested in how we interact with our environment and how it speaks to us: do we engage with it purely at face value, or can we learn to perceive deeper qualities – stories, even – that might initially escape our attention?
The photographs either stand alone or form the basis of my collages, which consider further what our relationship with our surroundings could be, by channelling the weird, the liminal and the illusional. Through the addition of elements from other sources such as vintage illustrations, my original photographs – visual representations of our known world – are transformed into spiritual and imaginal realms as I explore the connections between the human and the more-than-human. I imagine what might lie beyond that which we can perceive with our senses, creating fantastical scenes of natural and urban dreamscapes, evoking alternative ways of engaging with the universe and the spirits & creatures that are our fellow travellers within it.
I am as inspired by other art forms as I am by visual art: the fiction of writers such as Algernon Blackwood and Jeff VanderMeer, the films/TV of David Lynch, and art in alternative contexts such as tarot, album covers & gaming, have all provided inspiration for my visions. I have a fascination with the different ways images and words resonate with us, and the titles I choose for my works are as important to me as the imagery. My photographs have plain, descriptive titles, to allow the pictures to speak for themselves. My collages, however, have titles that ask additional questions (sometimes literally), inviting curiosity as to what is going on within the work: it may not be as it initially seems.
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