As an artist approaching photography I particularly enjoy the instant capture of images, and the freedom of progressing rapidly with ideas by using my camera as a tool. Computers are an essential part of this process, but the ‘work flow’ for me is the personal seeing of a potential image through to its creation. I use my computer to get the effect that I’m looking for, rather than exploring a computer technique for its own sake.

I have an on-going fascination with light reflected into dark spaces, enhanced by an interest in natural abstraction. This has led to an awareness of further possibilities with reflections, and thus, an investigation into the photographer’s presence upon the scene being photographed, using the twin properties of glass: transparency and reflection. Reflections have a timeless feel with ‘behind’ and ‘in front’ being presented on a flat printed page.

The Crypt of Worcester Cathedral has been a source of inspiration and has enriched my appreciation of how transient our culture is now, and always has been.

I never know where photography will lead me, but as Soren Kierkegaard said: “Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”