Instead of using a pencil or paintbrush, I use a camera and a computer. I have always been inspired by Surrealist imagery, simply because it confronts the viewer with a unique presentation, that has a visual impact. It is unexpected and remarkable. It encourages the eyes to wander, and the mind to wonder. I have always been influenced by collage. I started by using magazine cut-outs; progressing to using my own photographic prints, and now a digital camera with the computer, which gives me a greater freedom of expression and the possibilities to explore more potentially unique scenarios…..
When I look at the world through the viewfinder, I see an urban world of cracked pavements, electricity pylons, motorways, bridges and office blocks. The people I meet and see. I photograph anything and everything that catches my attention. Those white lines in the sky and on the roads, tables and stairs, ladders and chairs. I capture those disparate images and collage them to create a picture, that I didn’t even perceive at its conception, but worked through to an extraordinary conclusion. There might be three or thirty different components, collaged and composed, to find their final resting place on the canvas.
I try to realise a surprising and intriguing combination, of the plausible and the incongruous. I wish to create line, symmetry and ‘movement ‘ in the picture. I want you to look at these pictures and be bewildered or smile, and be amazed …. I’m trying to imagine something which is extraordinary, brilliant and I hope, has a magical resonance . I like to think of them as visual poems. I have an extensive portfolio, and submitted those pictures I think are worthwhile, reflecting my ever evolving observations and inspiration, whilst discovering new techniques to express myself.
I wish to give viewers optic nerve a visual spectacle . . or are the images I display pretentious and contrived?….maybe…but then again, I create these pictures because I love doing them. I don’t make these images with a hope of appeasing people’s fickle sensibilities and taste…I keep on sparking without fear or favour.
I gained a degree (BA hons) in Graphic Design at the NSAD in 2000.
I am a member of the Norwich Contemporary Arts Society.
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