About

I am a London based artist working with early photographic and printmaking processes such as Cyanotype and Photogravure.

My father was a seed merchant and we spent a lot of time as children in the back garden, or on the allotment where he grew most of our fruit and veg.

I have always grown plants and flowers on windowsills and doorsteps in all the various places I have lived in London. I graduated to this flat with a small South West facing balcony a while ago, and grow a lot of the flowers here that I photograph for my prints.

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.

Exhibitions/Education

BA Hons in Fine Art Sculpture from Maidstone College of Art.

Recipient of the Create Church St Grant; LCN Scholarship; awarded first place in the Alternative Processes Series of the 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, and an Honourable Mention in the Portrait Series. Work exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition 2021, the 6th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography in Barcelona 2021, the Turner Contemporary Open 2021 and ‘A Generous Space/Artist Support Pledge’ at Hastings Contemporary 2021-22, the RA Summer Exhibition 2022, the Bainbridge Open 2023 and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023, The Festival Of Print 2023, Printworks at Broadworks 2023. ‘Alchemy’ curated by ‘Thrown Contemporary’ at OmVed Gardens 2024. Selected for ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries 2024 and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024. Alternative Valentine Exhibition at Lido Stores Gallery, Margate 2025, Solo exhibition ‘Of Flowers and Swimmers’, at G99 Gallery, Vienna, Austria 2025, Summer Exhibition at The Gallery at Green and Stone 2025.

Work featured in ‘Your Daily Photograph’, ‘The Marginalian’, Outdoor Swimmer Magaine, B&W Photo Magazine and ‘Colossal’.