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The City is more than just bricks and mortar. It is a place that we relate to in a more emotional manner, one that evolves in our imagination, based on myth and fantasy. These images show no physical prescence of the inhabitants, however, evidence of their existence lies in the buildings that surround us. I try to capture this intangible sense of the City. Inspired by the writings of Jonathan Raban in 'Soft City'.

Occupied Territory, Intertwined Histories is an exploration of the legacies of war and the continuing troubled relationship between East and West. The parallels between iconic monuments both at home and abroad are linked to the descriptive genre of pictorial landscape, referencing the painful realities of our colonial past. This series of triptychs meld together archive material from my Father's National Service in the Middle East and my own responses to inherited memories of the 2nd World War.

Double Exposures are layered images, created through random multiple exposures on film, which evolve into metaphors for the process of recall.

Is it possible to preserve a memory or are they like history, an inevitable series of adaptations re-told in numerous different versions as we progress through our lives. Sometimes it is a sudden recollection that sparks a journey back in time triggered by sight, sound or smell that is purer before we have the chance to analyse our feelings or responses...

The book 'Looking Glass' addresses the dislocation experienced on revisiting my hometown and the subsequent submersion of fragmented childhood memories. This is both a reconstruction of a time of innocence and a reclamation of a family archive. A potent mixture of facts, feelings and half forgotten photographs blend together with images of treasured artefacts.

This work explores the relationships between identity, memory and the geographical imagination. I was inspired by the voices of the soldier poets of the Great War and the lyrics of popular songs of the period to create 'England Remembered'; a book of reflective landscape photographs portraying an aching parallel to the memories of home of the 'lost generation'.

The companion volume 'Scars Upon My Heart' expresses the emotional anguish of the women left behind through the terrible losses of the Great War. The desire to bear the scars their loved ones suffered and the torment of the perpetual reminders revealed within their familiar surroundings.

Monochromatic detail reflects on Nature's absorbtion within it's unstoppable path.

This exhibition explores the language of remembrance through imagery of local memorials of the Great War 1914-18. Photographs celebrating the diversity of these unique monuments are juxtaposed with text to challenge our preconceptions and open a window on the personal lives of the men and those who mourned them.

The stories are hidden there just behind the inscriptions…

Nature employs an exciting array of visual stimuli, embodied in the vibrant colours and sculptural forms revealed within the ephemeral display of exotic flora. The minutiae of detail overlooked in the course of casual observation transformed by the photographic lens. I seek to redefine spatial relationships and explore pre-conceptions of these alluring subjects, revelling in my fascination with the delicate play of light upon their exquisite shapes and fluid contours.