The garden is place of uncertainty and fear - unexplored and dark, but if you are quite and calm, tread carefully along its winding paths and look into it’s hidden groves, you just might find fragile beauty, strength and safety.

When I began the series, I didn’t know what I had in front of me. The pandemic had shifted reality and I thought that that was the theme that would guide its creation. My diagnosis of breast cancer came eight months after I began. My journey shifted and I began to see the garden through new eyes.

I felt compelled to document my cancer journey…

The theme of beauty in darkness began to emerge from my work. The sweetness of colour in a dark, broken world - a flower in a storm, the glow of dawn after a dark night - this world made sense to me.

Although fundamental, I consider photography to be a small part of my art. The hundreds of hours I spend before the day of the shoot - envisioning the scene, designing and building the set, making the props, sewing the costumes - and then after the shoot editing in Photoshop are enormous and far outweigh the actual time I spend holding the camera.

Each of these steps is purposeful, every decision carrying weight towards telling the story of the image. Each colour, shape and texture has meaning for me.