I specialised in sculpture during my Fine Art degree and spent much time taking photographs and working in the college darkroom.

After graduation I earned a living designing and making furniture. After a break to have children - during which time I worked as an architect’s technician - I am now a general builder. I was initially really surprised at how creative I find construction work: how working in these three dimensions often gives me a buzz that I had previously found in my studio.

About a year ago our daughter expressed a desire to use a 35mm camera: choosing one with her tickled something in me that I’d ignored for too long – to the point that I’ve returned to black and white analogue photography. I can’t fully express the thrill I experience throughout the entire process: from loading a film to mixing the chemicals to hanging prints up to dry after losing hours in the darkroom (it always returns to being a bedroom, but the temporary transformation is a wonderful one).

I’m currently working on the project ‘Pool’, where I’m visiting Shoalstone Seawater Pool over a twelve month period. My interest there lies in the interplay between figures (be they human or other animals), their shadows and the architecture that they occupy. When I was at college my photography tutor hammered into us that film is cheap considering what it can do - a brilliant image could be the one that we missed if we were being cautious about how much film we were using.