From Clay Paintings to Unique Digital Photographic Art

The defining moment in my practice came one morning when I was having a break from casting water purifier urns and I came across Richard Long's "Waterfall Line" in Google. The work was commissioned by Tate Modern for its year 2000 opening and it is a very large wall mural made from china clay.

The mural intrigued me and I needed to get some idea of the real piece so I flung clay slip onto my office wall and spontaneously made an abstract clay-work by drawing and palm painting into the clay surface.

My initial response to the result was lukewarm, but as the clay began to dry the real magic of form and textures began to emerge. 

Clay paintings would become a truly original source from which I could create digital photo collages.  Since 2014 I have created hundreds of ephemeral clay works which I have photographed in high definition. 

 My current artworks are all composed from fragment selections from photographs of these clay paintings. I feel that visually my work is more like fine art painting than a photograph.  

 Photoshop plays a crucial part in the formation of my digital photomontages. 

I have a large format pigment ink printer without which the development of my work  could not have been possible. My pigment ink prints are on archival Hahnemuhle paper and canvas.