Growing up, I had an infatuation with photography. It's an incredible medium. Imagine a world without photographs. They enable you to see the past, capture the present and look back on things and consider how far you or someone else have come or how much something has changed. It's sobering but also it can help you. As an artist, that infatuation evolved into a useful tool for my paintings. Reference photos are photos used in a work of art in whichever way an artist prefers to use them. As a painter, I am compelled by their realness and by their rigid simplicity. Before publishing these books, I had often used electronics to view my photos but I had always chose real books over reading from a screen, so why should that be any different with images? The idea of printing all of my photography in multiple volumes seemed like the only sensible thing to do. These are memories narrated by surroundings. Each volume is around 480 pages and contain around 475 photos taken by me and often used as references for my paintings. These are private, meaning that I am not comfortable with selling them so they will not be sold. but I'm really pleased that they arrived. Huge heartfelt thank you to my husband for continuing to be supportive (as he always has been) and who, even when I feel like utter sh*te, lets me know that I matter and that he sees something special within my art, writing and photography.
