“A colourist at heart, the wellspring for my practice is in recording the essence of the purest colour contained within light. My cameraless photography addresses the relationship between how we view and experience the intangible in an age increasingly defined by technology. I enjoy exploring the vast, elemental landscape of my home on Dartmoor. I am also very interested in geometric abstraction and colour theory.
My work has a visual simplicity that belies the complex process of creation. In my daily ventures into the art and science of trapping coloured light directly on paper, I am striving for a visual and physical means of experiencing the rich intensity of prismatic colour and keeping it for posterity. To this end, another passion of mine lies in perfecting working methods that allow me to perfectly distil the purity and luminosity of light as I record it on paper during fleeting exposures made in the pitch-black blind space of my darkroom. This is achieved in the act of analogue darkroom processing with a very particular set of chemical formulae and light sensitive emulsions; tweaked and adjusted continuously in almost 2 decades of research and practice in my colour laboratory.
I primarily make work with experimental cameraless photographic mediums such as luminograms, photograms and cliché verre prints in my darkroom. I'm interested in exploring alternative and historical processes, and passionate about my substantial stockpile of out-of-date peel-apart polaroid film. I love printmaking and painting for sketching my ideas, so I can occasionally be found making monotypes, screenprints and linocuts or gleefully throwing colour at canvas.”