At the beginning of 2025, I was invited by the Redcliffe Art Gallery to participate in Fresh Eyes 2025, a biannual exhibition for emerging artists in the region.

For this project I am building picking up the camera to make photographs of my surroundings. I’m a bit rusty and since I am making images to use as raw materials for collage, I’m on a bit of a learning curve. The process though, seeing through the lens of a camera, has been instrumental in opening my eyes to the landscapes in which I live. I've tried hard not to let the technical aspects of photography overwhelm my desire to anchor the images in my local environment. And figuring out Lightroom and Photoshop is an ongoing process!

The making is still very much in progress, but it is taking shape as I work toward the exhibition opening in November this year.