Artist's Statement

Although I began my career as a sculptor, for the past six years I have been working with computers and, more recently, using them in combination with digital photography. My current practice normally takes the form of large format limited edition prints. I am drawn to the discarded, the disused and the forgotten, and this is reflected in the things that I choose to photograph.

Most of my pieces originate from a combination of several carefully chosen digital photographs, usually taken from the same location with a cheap digital camera. These are then merged and sometimes rotated using Photoshop so that their original identities become, to some degree, obscured. I try to maintain a certain discipline throughout this process, preferring to concentrate on selecting and layering the images together to create an intuitive compositional structure, rather than attempting to impose one consciously. Ambiguous spaces and new colours appear as a result of this improvised abstraction, allowing me to deconstruct and reinvent the original location or object. The limitations of the technologies used to produce this work are an important part of this process.