Waterside Studio
Combe Raleigh
Honiton
Devon
EX14 4TQ
As a student at Camberwell College of Arts in the 1980s I spent many hours each week in day-long life classes, and it was there that I learnt how drawing is as much about looking as it is about making marks on paper.
Later I studied graphics at the London College of Printing and have pursued a career as a designer in the years between then and now. I work with cameras and photography most days, sometimes on location, more often in the studio, as each project demands.
Outside of work, I try to carry a camera at all times, for I find the camera helps me to look. It sharpens my seeing, makes me curious. It leads me away from the well-trodden path – not far, but sufficient that I look closer, from a different perspective.
The moments I treasure are those where I feel a connection, an urge to study more closely, for longer; which move me to contemplate and respond. I archive all the images I make, a purely personal record of what I have seen, thought and learnt. Often I will return to photograph the same scene, to renew the conversation. And occasionally I will make a print, to see the whole and the detail of an image together.