From a young age, I have been looking at and photographing landscape – trees in particular. It is in my nature to engage with nature and my photographic practice is the way I approach and explore this involvement.
As a child, before the digital age, I spent much of my time playing in the garden, building camps and climbing a large Cypress tree from which, when I reached the top, I could see right over my neighbours’ homes and gardens and gaze into the valley below. In summer, I cycled to the downs with friends and climbed every tree in the wood that I could, and in autumn, I climbed the horse chestnuts and threw down the conker cases to my friends below. Growing older, I rode horses through glorious beech woods and walked my dog daily in the Chiltern woodland where I have lived for the past 30 years. Trees have always played a large part in my life and in recent years I have been acknowledging and recognising the influence of the woods and natural world upon the human psychological state.