This series creates collages of gaudy, faded, beauty - painterly, neglected, richly
textured, and strange.
These images use small isolated details from Georges La Tour’s pictures as a starting
point for exploring photographic “deceits’.
La tour, a French seventeenth century baroque painter, explored chiaroscuro, the
high-contrast world of candlelight, making him interesting to photographers who deal in
light.
Photography is a very different way of investigating the world to paintings. Layering and
juxtaposition of painted elements, with my own photographs is used to create a surreal,
photographic, trompe l’oeil world. They hint at hidden secrets and a doorway between
illusion and reality. They question reality and invite a closer look.
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2021 - Wanton Boys - Chelsea Arts Club
2021 - Strange Shadows - Putney Gallery
2017 - Looking on Darkness - Viewfinder Gallery
2016 - Scenes of Deceit - Chelsea Arts Club
2013 - Strange Fruit - The Art Gallery Wales
2011 - Thinking makes it so - Aldeburgh
2010 - Beautiful and Damned - Hoxton Gallery
2010 - Strange Shadows - Association of Photographers Gallery
2010 - Phantoms of Delight - Archer's Soho
2008 - It’s Your Turn - Chelsea Gallery
2006 - Becoming - Chelsea Gallery
2005 - Silent Lives - Blue Room Soho
2003 - No Such Thing - Chelsea Gallery
Awards AWARDS
2023 - Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - Finalist
2023 - PX3 – International Paris Photo Prize – Finalist
2023 - International Color Awards – Finalist
2022 - International Spider Black and White Awards – Finalist
2022 - IPA International Photography Awards - Finalist
2022 - Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - Finalist
2022 - Monovisions Awards – Finalist
2021 - IPA - Finalist
2021 - International Color Awards - Finalist
2021 - Julia Margaret Cameron Awards- Finalist
2021 - Monovisions Awards – Finalist
2021 - International Spider- Finalist
2021 - PX3 - Finalist
2020 - BJP Female in Focus - Winner
2020 - IPA International Photography Awards - Finalist
2020 - International Color Awards - Finalist
2019 - IPA- International Photography Awards - Finalist
2018 - International Color Awards - Winner
2017 - IPA - International Photography Awards - Finalist
2017 - PX3 International Paris Photo Prize - Winner
2016 - PX3 International Paris Photo Prize - Winner
2015 - Renaissance Photography Prize Finalist
2015 - IPA International Photography Awards - Winner
2015 - Pink Lady food photographer - Finalist
2011 - Arles International Open Competition - Finalist
2010 - PX3 International Paris Photo Prize - Winner
2010 - Vermont International Self Portraiture Competition
2009 - Plates to Pixels International Competition - Winner
2009 - Terry O'Neill Award Competition - Finalist
2009 - LPA Documentary Competition - Finalist
2009 - Photo8 - Finalist
2008 - AOP Red Dot Exhibition
2008 - AOP Polaroid Retrospective
2008 - LPA Portrait Competition - Finalist
2007 - Royal Photographic Society International Competition
- Gold Medal -The Overall Winner
2007 - EMAP Shots - Finalist
2007 - Artoteque - Distinction
2006 - AOP Capture Competition Finalist
2005 - AOP Open - Finalist
2004 - AOP Open - Finalist
2003 - NPG Self Portrait UK Finalist
2002 - Kobal [now Taylor Wessing] Portrait Prize - Finalist
