Life & Creativity

Photos with my younger self

Photos with my younger self

There's a really lovely trend doing the rounds on social media, inspired by poet Jennae Cecilia, about meeting your younger self for coffee. You can...

Vision board: 2025

Vision board: 2025

A fairly speedy post today - it's Imbolc, the pagan start of spring and my personal new year. I much prefer it to the depths of midwinter, and it...

Collections: returning to dolls

Collections: returning to dolls

You might have spotted some miniature scenes on my socials recently, and the photo of me chatting to Raven Queen on my sofa was an unexpected hit at...

Catching up with Raven Queen

Catching up with Raven Queen

It's been what feels like forever since I had a chance to work on something just for fun, but a recovery day after being horizontally sick for a...

Making signs for my art business

Making signs for my art business

For the art trail, the studio in general and the occasional events I do, I wanted to make some wooden, chalk and painted signs - fun and on brand,...

Press: Mermaiding, i news

Press: Mermaiding, i news

Fabulous beach photo by the brilliant Sarah Wayte Creative. It was November and BLOODY FREEZING, but so worth it! It's been such an exciting week -...

Spring experiments

Spring experiments

Just hopping in to record some in progress experiments I've been doing as the winter finally gives way to spring. There's still a chill in the air,...

Artist Date: a day of play

Artist Date: a day of play

For almost two years now, once a month Juliet Lockhart and I hold space for each other to do something we otherwise put off indefinitely. Usually...

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Carla is a photographer and mermaid with a love of the ethereal, nostalgia and magic.
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.