Les trois Mousquetaires including an old selfie taken on Ilford film.
Hello and welcome,
I'm Julie - a Graphic Artist specialising in studio film photography and printmaking
. I'm a darkroom addict and love my medium and large format cameras. I have more than a passing interest in Colour Psychology.
My work explores the deep and often unspoken relationship between humans and the natural world.
My Artist Statement can be found here.
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It’s that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom. John Sexton
PHOTOGRAPHER | ALCHEMIST | PRINTMAKER
With a lifelong passion for photography and being the middle of three generations of film photographers, I always feel extremely proud photography is firmly embedded in my DNA. I was born with a camera in my hand. My upbringing in film, piles of negatives, a red Box Brownie camera and the smell of the darkroom are responsible for my deep, continued interest in shooting film and traditional printing and exploring historic processes. Time in the darkroom is hugely important to me.
To my fuel vision, I spent quality time at the Manchester School of Art and University of Gloucestershire studying the three disciplines of Art, Design and Photography, culminating with degree in Graphic Design and an MA in Fine Art Photography and papers written on Colour Psychology – all of which continue to feed into my work today. I work with Medium and Large format cameras. I’ve been making Cyanotype prints since the 1990’s and started silver printing 15 years before that.
Informed by Japanese Aesthetics, my work has become deliberately sparse, resulting in a simple celebration of beauty found in the transience of the seasons. I am in awe of both the beauty and resilience of Mother Nature and find that Japanese ideas allow my work to both speak and breathe.