My interests in art started from a young age within sketches, ‘’though school was difficult to grasp’’ thus finding my strengths in making art, I attended art college to study visual arts in photography, that shaped my concepts in capturing society within their environments, of everyday life’s’’ with storytelling through documentary and street photography’ that give me a way to communicate visuall
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Over the years I’ve relocated to different parts of the UK, ‘along the way documenting and photographing my surroundings’’ in addition capturing a way of life within different towns and cities and the people who occupied them. Settling back in my hometown of Birmingham in 2014, a new project would steer me from street photography’’ as an occupant to a garden, my attempts to transform this wasteland back into a garden space, ‘’had inspired me to grow from seeds, to create a peaceful space, a calm environment within the hustle and bustle of a busy city, to document nature and the changes of seasons, how a setting can change the mindset to a place of relaxed feelings and a sense of wellbeing. On reflection’ adapting to change through life’s ups and downs, circumstances create new subjects to explore; after capturing a world around me ‘I formed a self-projection of my own life to capture, how I coped in isolation through a pandemic, exploring self-portraits in a time of uncertainty. Currently living in Cornwall since 2021, with broken photography equipment I find my self-painting onto canvases, for me staying creative keeps a sense of wellbeing, inspired by Cornish countryside’s, historic architecture to depict images onto canvases using paints and brushes that would in time improve, to evolve and make new artworks.
