Thistle Composition Photograph

My inspiration is fuelled by the natural world, the shapes, colours and continual movement and growth. To find these I often travel, soaking up different environments through watercolour, sketching and photography, bringing these valuable resources back home to my overcrowded little patch just outside London. The process of cyanotype printing can be most addictive. I enjoy the simplicity of the photogram style print, embracing the shapes of plants like Anna Atkins herself (British Botanist 1799-1871). But the most exciting is producing hand drawn negatives and experimenting with bleaching and multi-layered exposures, which can become quite lengthly and complex. I enjoy adding some extra colour to these, using pigments found and made at the site of the Artwork bridging a connection from land to human, destination and home.