Most recently the complexity of portraiture has informed and inspired my work. I have sought to create portraiture that can reveal everything or nothing depending upon the viewer’s level of insistence to discover. In some work the process is staged and formalised, I use the camera as a painter would apply their oils – only choosing those elements that create the story that I want to tell. Beneath the veneer there is always more; a thought, an emotion or a displacement, each one I find fascinating. In other work I let go of the process and randomise and complicate by shredding and weaving the elements until they are hardly coherent. Like the concept of identity and the sense of self, the images flow from one extreme to the other in a mimetic dance. Ultimately each piece is an insight into my self – The Mother series is a reflection and investigation into my own inconstancy; A Woman’s Place is concerned with acceptance on one’s own terms. The mediums used vary from digital photography to medium format film; collage and large scale hand woven canvasses to original pencil drawings collaged with photography. … Read More