Photography
I really enjoy taking photographs, I use them constantly as source material in my artistic practice. I subscribe to Henri Cartier Bresson’s belief that “a photograph is a decisive moment when visual harmony and human significance combine”. I am interested in the way photographs draw on thought, memory and emotion in a unique way. Photography allows me to experiment with new ways of seeing everyday things and places. With the effects created by pattern, shape and light, I can explore relationships between the physical and the metaphysical, the internal and the external, the manifest and the non-manifest.
Printmaking
I am a printmaker. I make etchings and monoprints. The qualities of these two methods of printmaking are rich and sensual, they stress tactility and palpability and have the ability to create a plethora of linear and tonal variation. My interest in Eastern philosophy and aesthetics has recently led me to make works on paper using Japanese inks and brushes. I thoroughly enjoy making my work. I see it as an expression of my curiosity about the mysteries of life. It documents my fascination with the paradoxical and the unknown in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the Self.
I really enjoy taking photographs, I use them constantly as source material in my artistic practice. I subscribe to Henri Cartier Bresson’s belief that “a photograph is a decisive moment when visual harmony and human significance combine”. I am interested in the way photographs draw on thought, memory and emotion in a unique way. Photography allows me to experiment with new ways of seeing everyday things and places. With the effects created by pattern, shape and light, I can explore relationships between the physical and the metaphysical, the internal and the external, the manifest and the non-manifest.
Printmaking
I am a printmaker. I make etchings and monoprints. The qualities of these two methods of printmaking are rich and sensual, they stress tactility and palpability and have the ability to create a plethora of linear and tonal variation. My interest in Eastern philosophy and aesthetics has recently led me to make works on paper using Japanese inks and brushes. I thoroughly enjoy making my work. I see it as an expression of my curiosity about the mysteries of life. It documents my fascination with the paradoxical and the unknown in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the Self.