Portiphillio

Social media can be great, but you cant hold it, touch it, screw it up or stick it on a self or make a pile of it on your desk. I think thats partly the attraction I have to making zines, they can be a tactile manifestation of the digital images I make, an experience…

Receiving an email inviting me to take part in an exhibition was an unexpected joy. For many years I have existed on the periphery of creative communities. Taking the plunge three years ago with submitting a piece of work into a Queerfest exhibition in Norwich was my first tentative step into a community of artists…

So many things go unsaid, there are so many secrets, things that ‘never happened’, but traces remain in our memories of these events, situation, people and feelings. ‘I will tell you when I am ready to say’ Is an installation with a part performed element, recording and revealing fragmented memories from the 1980s, 1990s and…

A volume of transitory works (digital photographs)  that was conceived in 2023 but not realised until the beginning of 2026, At our very Heart manifests as collections of altered leaves that nods to the notion of diversity. Initially inspired by the Sycamore Gap tree, a British Isles non native that when cut down, became the…

The Surface Tension works are a part of an ongoing series of map works started in 2025. A digression from print to the use of coloured threads on pre existing maps. Surface Tension draws attention to the map grid as a framework spanning the British Isles, with these lines being highlighted by rainbow colours, threaded…

In 2023 I attended a short zine making workshop in Stowmarket, It appealed, as a means to reconnect with zine making, an activity I had dabbled with through my sending of Mail Art some years ago. With the workshop completed, I returned home to my desk and considered making a few zines, striking while the…

We clapped for carers and nurses during the Covid pandemic to show our appreciation of what they do, yet this was not necessarily followed up by the positive actions that supported those people as we made our way out of the pandemic that many of us had hoped for. News programmes have since been laced…

Politics in the UK have been particularly divisive in the last 10 years or so, singling out and villainising various minority groups of people in our society. I was prompted to be thinking about this in early 2025 while I was on many of my coastal visits making versions of the ‘Welcome’ volume of work…

Social media accounts that are filled to overflowing with selfies can be a bit intense at times. Its been something, that with having low self esteem and not feeling very positive about self image, that I have struggled to partake in myself. Photographs in my camera reel have a varied mix of buildings, landscapes, plants…

“Welcome’ started out in the year 2000 as a response to negative articles, about immigrants and refugees, in the media. People coming to these shores and learning to speak their first words of English had provided me employment as a teacher in the local college, the stories and accounts of why people came to the…