The Essence Collection

The Essence Collection is a series of images using a cameraless photography, Alternative Processing method.

The Essence Collection is now available in the Print Shop as Digital Downloads. I love to be able to offer my work to you in this way. For you to have beautiful artwork in your home with just a click of a button. You can print to your own size specifications, using the paper or canvas of your choice.

The Essence Collection is a collection of images using a cameraless photography method I developed over the summer. Using plants as the subject matter AND in the homemade developing method. It came about during this time of life where I am less interested in the visible, documenting what’s in front of me and looking more within, at the unseen. It’s slow art, that is developed over days. I have been becoming disenchanted by the instant gratification we as a society (myself included) get on a daily basis. Don’t get me wrong, I love getting my Amazon orders so quickly but for the most part I have been drawn to slowing down- in life and in my art. Maybe it’s the Autumn season that has been calling to me, maybe it’s the pandemic and all the craziness of the world right now. Whatever the reason, I am following my intuition and exploring this way of being.

You can read more about my experiments with this process here, here, and here

I also made a little video showing some of the Behind the Scenes working on this collection.

I am really proud of this body of work. It is going completely outside my comfort zone but it also feels like coming home into my work. I will be adding more to this Collection as I see fit too. I’d like to start working with the seasons to see how the work shifts with the seasons and exposure of light.