I started taking photographs several decades ago when in my early teens and it still seems magical to this day.

My hope has always been to produce photographs that stand as ends in themselves - not statements about issues or enquiries or windows on the world but things to look at rather than through.

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A person's prior experiences inevitably affect how he or she feels about a work of art. This includes knowledge he or she might have about how the work was created. My pictures are made with a film camera and darkroom. What you see are the products of straightforward and well-established techniques for silver-based photography.

Images on a screen are but ghostly intimations. They have a very different presence - much diminished in my opinion - from the materiality of a work mounted on a wall in a particular physical space.

In other words, the print's the thing.


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Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
Black Swan Arts Open 2019, Frome, Somerset

2015
Open Spaces Mottisfont Abbey, Mottisfont, Hampshire

2014
Salon Photofusion, Brixton

2013
Resonance The Ark Centre, Basingstoke

2009
Fabric of the Land School of Geosciences, Aberdeen University
Rhubarb-Rhubarb Birmingham

2008
Rhubarb-Rhubarb Birmingham

2006
Artsway Open Artsway, Sway, Hampshire

2004
Common Ground Artsway, Sway, Hampshire

2003
Forest Southern Arts Touring Exhibition, Winchester
Gallery and various other locations
View Artsway, Sway, Hampshire

2000
Open Lens Forest Arts, New Milton, Hampshire

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Sprat and Winkle and Test and Itchen Southampton City Art Gallery

2021
Sprat and Winkle Andover Museum, Hampshire
45(a) Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire