Photography was my first love, the essence of light I could (and have) given lectures on.  It's quality can still stir emotion and draw me intrinsically to set up a camera and hope.  After university film was taken over by digital and although I use this I still hanker after those days of film.  Digital for me can never replace the beautiful grain available in film.  

So for my work now I use digital photography, purely as a quick element to my artistic self, much of this work is used purely as reference for my textiles.  Occasionally though the image captures what I need as a photographer, these are the ones that make it here, to my gallery and availability as prints and greetings cards.