inspired by seaweed
Photography
I love to photograph the fascinating world of seaweeds, whether it's the entire plant or its parts. Recently, I've been inspired by the intriguing mark-making of Guido Strazza, which has sparked my creativity and led me to explore more abstract forms in my photography. Each shot reveals new layer of beauty in these ocean beings!
Two woven electron microscope images of Anna's hair and laminaria blade printed on vellum paper.
An image of wakame drying made with a phone microscope.
Repeated images of plaited thong weed placed randomly on an inked plate make up this example of wall paper.
Overlapping shadows of dried dulse.
A furbelows on the beach.
Laminaria digitata washed up after a storm.
Red wire weed after a storm.
Papery fan weed.
Dilsea carnosa - red rags
Wakame drying in the sun.
Photo gravure of my electron microscope image of a laminaria holdfast.
Photo gravure of mark making from frontage of dried laminaria using black ink on tissue paper.
Wakame and shadows.
Laminaria digitata - Oar weed - stipe detail.
Ink gestural mark-making with a squeegee.
This is a video on Youtube about my latest meander book: https://youtu.be/HwCaDGsx9Bw
My entries for the Moving Image exhibition in The Projection Room, Paignton from October 24th to 29th 2025.
I have interpreted 'moving image' poetically rather than literally because the era represented in images and films of the original Paignton Picture House where these films were used and will be stored,has gone. We can dream and reminisce about it and we can feel moved and perhaps nostalgic about it but we must now create our own images and films which may move some people one day.
