The Arts & Culture Journal

Who have been the major influences and inspirations on your work and why?

Jack Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, don’t double think what you do to create, just create, and keep creating and focus. That idea applied to shooting film got me off. To capture, if only for yourself, instils the power of creativity and I was bitten by that bug a long time back. Andy Warhol once said, “There is no such thing as a bad picture.”      

Have you received any formal training?

No, I am 100% do it yourself.

How long have you been taking photographs?

23 years, since 1986, when my father gave me my first camera. It was a gift for a trip I was taking to Alaska. A small cheap Panasonic - It took really cool pictures.

What’s your favourite environment in which to work?

Out in the natural world, with the sun, or the rain, the crows, the water. No enclosed environments, nature is the best background and foreground. 

What are the overall themes and messages you try to incorporate in your work?

Peace,  solitude, silence, some pictures to meditate on, lone staircases, unopened doors.

What other mediums do you like using?

I like writing. I have a small publication that periodically puts out art & photography zines. I enjoy oil painting, sketching, cartooning, silk-screening, I am just starting to learn how to tattoo as well - I like to dabble in a lot of art!