I’m interested in photographing the wooded spaces trapped between farmers fields. Ancient woodland, hollow ways, oak trees and ancient paths. Liminal locations on the threshold between the mundane and the magical.
Over the years I’ve attempted to document my experiences in these liminal places using various mediums including photography, painting, film, installation and curation. Until 2008 I owned and curated ‘Woom’, an art gallery in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, where I exhibited and hosted the work of emerging visionary photographers, painters and musicians in a disused factory and cobbled courtyard [here]
Upon closing the doors of ‘Woom’ in 2008, I moved into a log cabin in Luccombe Chine on the Isle of Wight. An abundant part of the island with tall hills, dramatic coastline and ancient woodland. Never without my camera, attempting to capture the area’s propensity for majestic otherworldliness on my daily walks. I kept a photographic journal for over a decade of life in the Chine, an archive of which can be found [here]
In 2015 I had my first solo exhibition ‘The Fae live in the Bokeh’ at Dimbola Lodge, the once home of pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. The photographs were shot in the myriad of small enchanted wooded spaces that surrounded my home in the Chine. A book that accompanied the exhibition can still be found [here]
In the past year I have been collaborating with Silversmith Abigail Brown and photographing her work in the enchanted places we’ve found and shared with each other. The photographs can be seen on a website I made for Abi [here]
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