Stillness. Patience. Presence.
Nature teaches us stillness, patience, presence, resilience, balance, acceptance. What does the world teach us? I have fibromyalgia. My central nervous system is hypersensitised, a condition that manifests largely as chronic pain. Pain is a warning signal and my body is trying to protect itself but it senses any kind of perceived danger as a […]
Why Shoot Self-Portraits – Exploring the Creative, Personal, and Practical Elements
Self-portraiture holds a significant place in the history of art and creative expression. From early painters including Rembrandt and Van Gogh to photographers such as Edward Steichen, Cindy Sherman and Vivian Maier, capturing one’s own likeness is a practice that many artists have experimented with over the years. When it comes to photography, self-portraiture offers […]
Soft and Sentimental Summer Photography
Summer is traditionally a time of nostalgia. Memories are built on long days of warm weather, leisure time away from the everyday responsibilities of life and a feeling of freedom. We remember summer days in a haze of light and sentimentality. This year, summer has looked a little different. I’ve been experiencing some health issues […]
Fragments
Fragment (noun): a small part broken off or separated from something. Language has a powerful ability to invoke, capture and express emotion. The expressive capabilities of language can be amplified in two ways. One, by digging deeper into the origins and history of a word or phrase, and two, by pairing language with another art […]
Investing in the Creative Process
Creativity is a practice. This is something I strongly believe. While creative pursuits often have an end goal or outcome – creating an image, writing a book, composing or playing a piece of music – the process is equally, if not more important. How, and why, we get there matters. The key to being good […]
Art and the Invitation to Feel
I am a person driven by feeling. Emotion has always been the compass that I have navigated the world by. Feelings help me to process, to understand things that I can’t explain in logic or analytics, or often by words in general. For the longest time (and even still), the ability to communicate what I […]
Creating Diptychs in Photography
What is a diptych? A diptych is a work of art made up of two panels, intended to be displayed side by side. Originally a diptych commonly referred to a painting, created from two panels, hinged together, but the term has evolved to refer to any two-part work of art, including paintings, prints and photography. […]
Inspiration Through Technique : Working with Light and Shadow
When I first started photography, I was working mostly with composites – images created largely in Photoshop by piecing together multiple other images to make something that only exists in the imagination. As anyone who has worked in this method will tell you, the key to a believable composite is consistent lighting. When the aim […]