False face

We have lived our lives behind a mask. Sooner or later — if we are lucky — the mask will be smashed // Marion Woodman

Poetry of portraits..

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.” — Philip Larkin

Pageant of summer...

“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.” // Richard Jefferies

Bluet

“We love to contemplate the colour blue” Goethe

Figures of thought and moments in time..

Flower portraits and people

Knowing...

The fragile loveliness of knowing who we are…

Tracy Worcester, environmental activist of Farms Not Factories.

Bloom

..following the example of the bees..

Flower Portraiture

Notice what makes you notice...

Walking portrait session with me around London; perfect for your website update and social media content.

A time between worlds...

Ice and snow portraits in Finland last week… starring Wendy

Leaping into the unknown...

I recently had the joy of creating a mixed media portrait of Marine Tanguy; we wanted to lean into her vulnerability, champion her leadership and celebrate the joy of art. Marine is the CEO of MTArt Agency ... Agreeing to a nude pregnancy shoot was on the fringes of Marine’s comfort zone but the result is an expression of why creativity means leaping into the unknown.

How to curate a life...

… live among things that make you gasp with delight. Portrait of art curator Marine Tanguy

This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. A love denied, a love restored, to live beyond tomorrow...

Abi Morgan, the acclaimed creator of The Split and The Iron Lady has endured three gruelling years of loss and illness. Now she’s written it all up in her first book, This Is Not A Pity Memoir.

Abi Morgan

A Plastic Planet...

In January 2017, A Plastic Planet was founded by Sian Sutherland with one singular goal: to ignite and inspire the world to turn off the plastic tap.

Sian Sutherland

The blue hour...

The day ends. The night falls. And in between… there is the blue hour. — Isabelle Simler

Soil, the great connector of lives...

Helen Browning of Helen Browning Organics and The Soil Association photographed at The Rosewood, London.

Harmonising the whole...

.. with Marine Tanguy, founder of MTArtAgency… according to philosopher Susanne Langer “The aim of art is insight, understanding of the essential life of feeling.”

Luminous...

… human form

Marco Piccioni

At the end of the day...

"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can" // Frida Kahlo

Conversations & portraits in my kitchen with dear friend and artist Lubna Speitan on pain and hope.

Recreate and repeat

“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.” ― Warsan Shire

Everywhere...

“…later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.” ― Warsan Shire