Air and branches
Work around trees, atmosphere, lightness, and space.
cuprotype/cyanotypes/ferroblend
Historical photographic processes
Images between appearance and disappearance
I work with historical photographic processes, using light, chemistry and time as active elements in the making of an image.
My work explores absence, memory and transformation. I am interested in the fragile moment in which something appears, lingers for a while, and slowly withdraws again.
The processes I use are not merely a means of production. Their unpredictability, material presence and gradual unfolding are part of the meaning itself.
Many of my photographs and botanical prints are informed by the Japanese concept of Ma — the meaningful space between things. Not emptiness, but a silence that allows a subject to breathe.
I am equally drawn to the spirit of wu wei: allowing an image to emerge rather than forcing it into being. In that space between intention and chance, the work finds its own form.
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Series
Echo in glass
Stillness, reflection, fragility and what remains.
Van Dyke Brown
Still lifes
Objects, vessels and flowers held in a suspended time.
three layer cyanotypes and gumprints
The poetry of flowers in the field
Wild flowers in the grasslands
Van Dyke Brown hand-coloured with watercolour
Changing worlds
Transformation, instability and image as process.
Wet cyanotypes with botanical pigments
Shadows
My shadow in eight cyanotypes with different moods.
Pure blue cyanotypes
Photogrammes
Cameraless photography.
Cyanotypes and gum bichromate
Birds
Coming soon
Cyanotypes, toned cyanotypes and cupritypes
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