Cyanotype

A landscape is often seen as something viewed from a distance. In Living Traces, one of the groupings of artwork in my Ghosts of Gondwana exhibition, you encounter it through physical contact.

At first, the embossings can be easy to miss. The cyanotype plant form is what you see first. Move closer and the light begins to catch subtle rises and hollows in the white paper behind it. A [...]

Awe begins with close attention. I set out to make work about close attention. To share the awe that can be experienced when we slow down and really look. What I did not know was what that work [...]

The exhibition has opened! Seeing the work displayed together for the first time was surreal. For months, I had experienced the work in pieces. I stored finished pieces between sheets of paper [...]

I have a deep affection for cyanotype – that beautiful blue, alternative photographic process that has become an integral part of my creative work. Invented in 1842 by Sir John Herschel [...]

Cyanotype has been part of my creative world for a while now, and I’m thrilled to have one of my works included in Cyanotype Currents: Contemporary Abstractions in Cameraless Photography, one [...]

Water and sunlight, essential for life, combine to nurture the lush flora surrounding me in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. In ‘Water’s Harvest,’ I celebrate this essential partnership through [...]

Did you know … blue is the most common favorite colour, worldwide; purple comes in second (according to studies carried out by various global marketing big wigs). Blue is absolutely MY [...]

What do you do during that week between Christmas and New Year? Those 7 days of what I call ‘no-mans-land’ … when Santa has climbed down countless chimneys and we wait for that [...]

What reference books sit on your bookshelf? Specifically … good, solid reference material about the Cyanotype process?