“I’m always thinking of the Monet lilies and how, the closer you get, you lose the form and get lost in the brush strokes“ - “I find that the intimacy and scale is very poetic…my cyanotypes are a contemplation of a fragile moment that’s eternally suspended…brought up close so that it can be examined. The process of making these works is very long, the larger works especially; it’s a very considered preparation and then I have to react very quickly to pin that moment and I can’t rework it once it’s done. I only have this one chance to trap the fragile beauty of the moment... And then it’s eternally pinned, like a butterfly, to the page. The new works are larger, up to 3-4 metres, more abstract than before, more painterly. They are even looser, forever held on the brink of a moment that is about to be lost. Each image is the abstract remains of a moment…”