My training is in painting and I came to photography relatively late in my career. Today my work is primarily photographic in nature, albeit reworked digitally. In focusing on the fundamental elements of painting such as form, line, and color, I manipulate the images in order to arrive at a visual language which attempts to push photography beyond a straightforward narrative representation. I find that this approach affords me a freedom of expression which can be more abstract or conceptual, and is more personal.
Throughout my career I have mostly dealt with the subject of landscape and our relationship to our environment. However, in 2016 I started to work on a project that was more autobiographical and dealt with ideas concerning domesticity. The initial series brought together the dual concepts of home and environment or the relationship between our inner lives and our place in the world. From there I moved onto work that specifically addressed my place in my domestic environment and the conflicts between domesticity and creativity. This work was eventually exhibited in 2017 in a solo show called Whiter than White (paysages domestiques) at the Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art in La Seyne sur Mer, France. The series A Fine Balance, which I have presented here, evolved out of this work.
