Tag: EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
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HOME / WORK Project: NYE PARRY
Nye Parry is a composer and sound artist who produces creative work from his home studio. I met Nye through his wife and frequent collaborator Madi Boyd, whose home studio I also photographed. I asked Nye: When did you start working from home? I’ve always worked from home most of the time, alongside teaching work.…
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE ENGLISH GARDEN MAGAZINE: RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2025
It’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show week again and I was pleased to be photographing for The English Garden Magazine again this year. It’s so interesting to see what the designers and their teams conjure up each year, get inspired by the different planting combinations and learn something unexpected (I was fascinated by the innovation in the Garden of the…
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Photography for The Goldsmiths’ Company – Fred Rich
A while ago I had a lovely commission from The Goldsmiths’ Company to photograph Fred Rich, one of Britain’s most dynamic and exciting art enamellers, at work in his studio. These images can now be seen in a wonderful feature by Janice Hosegood, ‘Precious Botanicals – drawing inspiration and abstraction from the natural world‘, which you…
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HOME / WORK Project: MADI BOYD
Madi Boyd is an installation and ceramic artist who sculpts light and space by combining built environments with projected video and hand builds ceramic homeware and art. I met Madi through Creative Colchester events and it was fantastic to visit her spacious home studio, which is built in a former garage in her house. I…
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HOME / WORK Project: NEL MOOY
Nel Mooy is an artist who creates lino prints as well as working in her employed job in insurance from her garden office at home. I met Nel through her wife, Angela, whose ceramics studio I also photographed. It was wonderful to visit Nel’s purpose-built office/studio to see how work, home and artistic practice all…
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HOME / WORK Project: Angela Godwin
Angela Godwin is a studio ceramist who focuses on creating beautiful and interesting, functional and sculptural ceramics using life drawing, pareidolia, layering, patterns and mark making as inspiration for making and decorating her pieces. I met Angela at the Cuckoo Farm Studios ‘Presents’ Christmas show, where she is an associate artist. It was fantastic to…
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HOME / WORK Project: Beverley Garrod
I met Beverley Garrod of House of Garrod through the Chelmsford Breakfast Business Club and was fascinated to hear about the incredible bespoke furnishings and textile pieces she creates in her home studio in rural Essex. A truly unique space, Beverley’s showroom, workspace and family home all coexist in a converted barn where fabrics are…
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Portrait Photography: A Personal Commission
Recently my sister asked me to take some photographs at a significant time for her and her baby. It felt very special to capture this moment with her and I’m pleased to share one of my favourite images here. A brilliant Associate Professor, writer and wonderful mum, I hope the photos give a glimpse of…
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Notes on October
October was busy. I got some test shots on 120 film back from AG Photolab, there was a good balance of different jobs (some in places with good views of London), though sadly I can’t really share them just yet, which makes a photo blog challenging. I saw 2 excellent rainbows, visited the sea twice…
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Notes on recent things
It was a funny old summer. Mostly I quietly worked away on my DYCP, built this new website and applied many layers of paint to the the summerhouse we put together in the spring. We spent a wonderful week exploring Copenhagen and Stockholm, where we had the most delicious food, saw beautiful places and walked…