Stepping up anyway
Gosh, it’s been longer than I thought since I wrote over here! As ever in my world, both everything and very little has changed. I’m still running around doing multiple things, I’m still rarely seen without my camera, and I’m still very much my...
My Burlesquiversary – six years of burlesque & body confidence
A little bit of a personal post today – can we talk about burlesque? April 18th marked my six year burlesquiversary. (That is absolutely definitely a real word.) With my best friend Lou (she’s on the right, I’m on the left, our stripes match!) at...
A body positive, burlesque weekend
If you’ve landed here, you’ll know that body positivity is a strong influence in my work and in my attitude to life. Towards the end of last year, I had one of those moments where things just fitted together magically to make a wonderful weekend of bopo...
Christmas moments
New year already! Christmas this year was a hard one, our first without Dad. Despite being a photographer, I had never before appreciated quite how precious photos are, once someone is gone, and that is the only record you have of their expressions, their smiles, the...
Gran
My Gran is wonderful. At 88, with 14 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren, she is unquestionably the matriarch of the family, and she is at the centre of our lives. But she is notoriously camera shy and hates posing! So I was extra-chuffed to get this photograph of...
She weaves stories into photographs which could have walked off the pages of a book, and which invite you to find your own stories within them.
Living and working on the north Essex coastline (which suits her mermaid heart), her work pulls together memory, imagination and wonder.