When not in my painting studio and whilst traveling, I instead paint with my camera, seeking to find my paintings within the marks, stains, colours and textures of distressed and weathered walls and other surfaces, some parts of which have intentionally or accidentally been laid down by others. My intent is to photographically frame these images and subsequently print them exactly as found. To date, I have produced series of photographs from: Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Cuba, France, Spain, Morocco and most recently Italy.
What I find fascinating about finding these images, is that I have no idea how they arrived to look the way they do at the time of my choosing to photograph them. I don’t know who or what made them or the timescale involved for them to look the way they do and this creates, for me, a sense of mystery and intrigue of untold stories, which are captured and embedded in the final photograph.
The photographs, often mistaken as reproductions of my paintings, are signed, numbered, limited editions, printed on 310gsm Hahnemühle German etching paper using archival inks.
