ABOUT

My work investigates the threshold between presence and absence.

I work where visibility is conditional: polar coastlines where snow and mist flatten the world to a single tonal field, still water where reflections hold more substance than their sources, intertidal zones redistributed twice daily by the tide. The place itself governs what becomes visible.

Reduction guides how I work. In black and white, attention gathers around tonal relationships: the weight of a dark mark, the interval between branches, a reflection losing its edges. In colour, a restricted palette carries the changing character of light and the feeling of a particular encounter. Across both, I am drawn to the point at which familiar forms become uncertain, and recognition gives way to a slower kind of looking. Exposures gather duration into a single frame, holding what usually passes too slowly to be seen.

Most of my work sits at the edge of perception, where what is present has to be found before it can be seen.

I grew up on the Cornish coast, where the shoreline is never twice the same line. The work has never left that edge.