Nature nominee

“Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I collected flowers from my mothers garden after her death two years ago, she spent most of her time in her garden it was her life, she was born in Italy and lived a simple life and so growing produce for food and for decoration was at her core. The plants I collected are her, a portrait of her, they are drenched in her DNA.

I have watched them fade and become something other as she is now, but like her they are a memory of what they once were, her dust making something new, a life in another form, I am fascinated by science, the fact that we are all made of the same star dust, plant life, creatures and humans and that we will all go back to that in the end, the whole cycle of life, no escape.

I have completed a BA in fine art and achieved a first class honours degree at The University of Gloucestershire as well as studying photography which was mainly wet room photography. I have had several exhibitions of photography and art and I have recently been selected for for The Glasgow Gallery of Photography in Scotland for two exhibition in April and June ,some of my work has also been published in The Guardian Newspaper and Frames Fine Art Photography Magazine as well as being recently being selected for 101 Contemporary Artists publication by Collect Art, I have been shortlisted for the Guardian Travel photography awards as well as Pink Lady Food Awards.
I exhibited at the Museum in the Park Stroud Gloucestershire and twice at and Lansdown Hall and Gallery Stroud, also Lanacre gallery on Exmoor .
A few years ago The Director of the Tate Modern GB picked a photograph that I had taken to be published in the Observer Newspaper.
I have also won the PJ Crook Arts Award for Outstanding Work for my final degree show-2017