ULTRAMARINE

 
Deep blue analogue film image, seascape with a sphere or orb above a horizon line

Ultramarine #1, 2025

These photographic works were made following a move to the coast. Studio photographs on medium format film are chemically and physically deteriorated using sea-water, sunlight and liquids that accelerate celluloid decay. The film's surface is cut, sometimes hole-punched or burned adding texture and depth.

The process explores overlapping processes in photography, painting and collage resulting in work that challenges these conventions and draws on pictorial representations of land, sea and sky from impressionism, abstraction and the romantic sublime. The name Ultramarine is derived from the Latin meaning 'beyond the sea’. My intention is to convey an experiential sense of landscape, both beautiful and terrifying. Like staring towards an uncertain horizon these viscous deep blue images evoke a sense of the unknown inviting a slow contemplation on time and decay.

Deep blue analogue film image, seascape with a sphere or orb above a horizon line

Ultramarine #1, 2025

Deep blue analogue film image, seascape with a sphere or orb above a horizon line

Ultramarine #7, 2025

Ultramarine #6, 2025

Ultramarine #6 (detail), 2025

Ultramarine #11, 2025