On being awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire); I am delighted to receive this award. Portraiture is still very much the backbone of my work. When you think of the number of faces in the world and that no two are exactly the same, that the face is not just inherited but evolves through age and experiences, then the creative possibilities are limitless.
I love the constant challenge of looking into another's eyes, delving into the familiar and unfamiliar, seeing beauty in strangeness and vice versa. My study of who or what a person is through the face, hands or body has taken me all over the world. Through this I started to accumulate a larger body of work, photographing cities, landscapes, and just abstract elements that attracted my curiosity along the way...from shadows in a New York doorway to raging seascapes off the the Irish coast. Expressing these things through photography is still a big buzz for me.
