Texture elements are a large creative aspect of my work. Looking at nature with a minute eye through a camera lens opens up an enormous diversity of detailed and abstract images. They form complete works in themselves but are often cut or torn to use in collages, collorgraphs and paintings.

This group of pictures are my most recent works.  The idea is to capture a ‘flow’ of images based on visits to thermals in the Atacama region of Chile; the marble rocks of Toroko Gorge in Burma and the  rocks of Noss in Scotland.   These fragmented shapes convey the visual sense of colour and movement in minute sections of the landscapes in these varied regions.

These are all photo montages inspired by flowers in Chile, and wild mushrooms growing in my garden in Sussex.  The flowers comprise six different images amalgamated to form a cohesive, yet puzzling entity.  Mushrooms, with their dangerous beauty  are a compelling attraction.  The fungi at first growth are simple and pure, becoming very exotic in the decaying stages.  It expresses the nature of life with it’s often variety of camouflage and hypocrisy.

The idea for this group, although initiated at my studio in London, were developed and expanded during 2013/2014 in Israel where my space was limited, so working on a computer solved this problem.  However, in my studio before I left, I created a 3 dimensional relief work out of recycled  packaging  using some of my previous collograph prints.  The clean lines of the geometric forms have influenced a series of later work.

These are photos taken at Timna in Israel.  Some are pure photos and some have been rearranged in ‘Photoshop’.  A major interest has always been the shapes and textures found in nature.  The mystery of holes and dark spaces with their allusive possibilities radiates emotional and awesome  prospects.

A special event on  a trip to Japan in December 2014.

We were paying a visit to Kamakura  where there is a giant Buddha.  It began to hail – or was it snow – it was both.  The hail was covered by a soft snow like substance.  It fell lightly to the ground making a spotted pattern – a beautiful art creation.