About

Thank you for visiting my website. I am based in Chudleigh, South Devon, UK, and am primarily interested in landscape photography. More specifically I am looking for evidence of changes in the land over time, whether from natural events or because of human intervention.

Evidence worth documenting is everywhere: long walks in the least hospitable parts of the moors can unveil remnants of past industries. Green lanes crisscross the whole of Devon, and they were all constructed for a reason, such as trade between villages, for example. Their paths are soaked in hundreds of years of human history – but how many people even notice them?

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Most recently, changes in my own life have lead me to jettison much of the camera equipment I have owned for several years. I’ve kept my large, very heavy digital SLR body for its creative potential, but now with just one lens; I don’t anticipate using it very often. I have a longstanding back problem following an injury many years ago, and now find Digital SLRs too heavy to carry for extended periods. Even the mirrorless versions which are lighter and smaller have a significant achilles heel: the lenses they use are always going to be too large and too heavy. Additionally I am now, by any reasonable definition, retired, and have opportunities to explore my local landscape that I could only dream about previously. I currently have little desire to explore much further than 10 miles from home, almost always on foot, with camera equipment that is just right for me, and allows me to walk and walk without too much pain. And so my photographs might inspire projects, to be developed as blog pieces, hand made books, zines (I really love zines – homemade as well as commercially produced!) and much more rarely (because nobody buys them), prints. I’m not sure where it’s all leading, but I’m enjoying this route to finding further meaning in my life, and releasing a long-cherished urge to create, which sounds pretentious, but is simply an honest realisation.

Christopher Somerville’s book: Somerville’s Travels, AA Books, 2009, a photograph of the disused tramway near Western Beacon

Dartmoor Magazine article, issue 99, Summer 2010 on Sherlock Holmes’ ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ – a black and white photograph of Nun’s Cross Farm

Walks along the South West Coast Path – Exmouth to Dartmouth – a book by Melanie Border and Ruth Lockhurst, Coastal Publishing, 2011. Three photographs of the South Devon Coast:
Towards Exmouth from Dawlish Warren
Across the River Teign from Shaldon
Brownstone Battery Gun Position

Dartmoor Magazine 2013 calendar – Nine Maidens Stone Circle photograph

Active Dartmoor magazine, issue 6, 2013, Natsworthy Gate photograph

Devon Life magazine, May 2015, contains a 2 page feature on my Devon Green Lanes work

Active Dartmoor / Visit Dartmoor website: Blog piece about photographing Dartmoor

Exeter Life magazine: cover image of the Exe Estuary, May 2016 issue

Dartmoor the Heart of Devon Calendar (commissioned by the Dartmoor Business Network in aid of the Donate for Dartmoor scheme) My image of Yar Tor from spring 2017 appears as the March 2018 image

I exhibited 5 of my 19240 Shrouds of the Somme  images in the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter, throughout November 2016

Dartmoor Open Exhibition at Green Hill Arts, Moretonhampstead, 17th June – 2nd September 2017, I exhibited Retaining the Kistvaen – a multiple exposure photograph made near Hound Tor, Dartmoor

The Dartmoor Collective – Water A new zine published 2020 by the Dartmoor Collective. My photograph Dunsford Wood, Autumn (a multiple exposure image) is included

The Dartmoor Collective – A Worked Landscape Second zine published Autumn 2020 by the Dartmoor Collective. I have three images in this zine: The Shippon at Higher Uppacott, Sweltor Quarry and The Engine Shed, Target Railway

Inside the Outside – Right to Roam Journal: Volume 1, March 2021. A finely produced, thoughtful and affecting A4 sized paperback journal of 110 pages, curated and published by the Inside the Outside collective. The photographs all address the difficulties of accessing the countryside in the UK and elsewhere. I have a photograph of Vixen Tor, Dartmoor included over a two page spread.

Dartmoor Open Exhibition at Green Hill Arts, Moretonhampstead, 7th April – 11th June 2022, I exhibited Pool Below Saddle Tor, Dartmoor, Winter 2022 – a multiple exposure image. You can find a blog piece about the exhibition here.

The Dartmoor Collective Summer Exhibition 2022 at Poltimore House, near Exeter, 26th – 28th August 2022. I exhibited 7 framed prints, including a black and white triptych, for the first ever exhibition from the Collective in the dramatic and extraordinary setting of this 18th century country house. An all-too-brief weekend, but in such an exciting venue, entirely suited to the images from the 19 artists who showed our work. A blog piece about the exhibition can be found here

Dartmoor Collective – Linear Dartmoor – This, the third zine, was published in a limited edition in the winter of 2022, and my image From Hookney Tor is included

Green Hill Arts Winter Exhibition – The exhibition ran from 10th November – 24th December 2022, and four of my framed prints were on display

Artizan Gallery, Torquay, The English Rivera Summer Open Exhibition – This excellent exhibition ran from 14th July – 27th August 2023. I exhibited three of my recent Chudleigh images (two black and white and one colour) and also took along a few copies of my Lidwell Chapel zine