As my friends and followers will be aware, I have recently began a journey of research to use the art and literature of the Pre-Raphaelite era as an inspiration to create pieces of fine art via the medium of photography, in that distinctive painters style. I needed to produce a 'test piece' to explore a very different lighting scheme and colour pal...

Following on from the Renaissance inspired imagery of my recent Historical Research Fellowship with the BIPP, I am staying true to my quest to experiment with other art pieces inspired by different eras in the history of art. I have long been enthralled by the Pre-Raphaelites and their obsession for figurative accuracy when portraying the human fig...

Its really not that long ago that it was the norm to have professionally printed, just about every image we took. Indeed since the advent of the photographic process, a print of some kind has always been made. Prints were valued as art, as memories, as legacy and as records. Without prints we would not be able to enjoy the earliest portraiture of J...

It's still alarming that the term ‘Fine Art photography’ continues to be a repository of anything not understood or perceived to be outside the comfort zone of existing, established genres or categories in the photography world. I beg the question “When is an image truly Fine Art?” Surely it cannot simply be a consumable studio portrait with the ap...