I cheated, this was taken last year but the sentiment is much the same.
Click for a little detail.

One of my best friends, Claire Magowan, makes the best cupcakes about. Fact. She was very kind in baking me two batches over the weekend, so I thought it only fair to take some commercial shots for her and to show the rest of you how great they are. Go visit her blog and see more of her cupcake genius.

Retail West. An on-going series of documentary-art photography (6 of 45 images).

Please click here to read the full artist statement.
(Please read the statement as it explains my intentions and what my reason is for creating such banal and repetitive photographs).

Please keep in mind that the repetitive nature of these images is intentional and works best when viewed as a complete series. The following images are a select few from an on-going series I have been working on sporadically for the past six years. Due to the fact that I will be having a small exhibition of the images I didn’t want to put them all online. In total there are 45 images so far, they are all very similar and repetitive. The reason for the bland repetition is to mirror the subject matter of retail (particularity that of Western retail, where the name partially stems from). I may choose to post some more over the next few weeks.

If you live near or know of a gallery that may be interested in exhibiting these as part of a group exhibition then please get in touch. Additionally, I am selling prints of these images individually in a range of sizes (from postcards costing £5 upward). If you are interested, drop me an email.

Once I compile and print all the images and exhibit them, then I will put the full series online.

As I had promised, ‘Retail West’, the latest instalment of my series of Supermarket Aisle images will be online very shortly. It was previously titled, ‘American Retail’, but it spread continents and changed names. I am hoping to exhibit the series so far in 2010 in London, but I’ve decided to share some of it online first. So check back later for a selection of the images!

If you interested in having it – or any of my series work – exhibited near you, get in touch and let me know the names of some great, preferably small, art galleries in your city. I have taken a year and a half long break from the world of art and exhibiting, but I have plenty of work in progress to get me back into it.

Illustrated freehand (with a mouse, because my graphics tablet died long ago) in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

I never participate in blogging trends because I’m not very good at keeping up. In the past two weeks, six of the blogs I like to read all participated in this ‘What I Wore Today’ illustrated. Most of the drawings left me completely impressed. So as I was procrastinating from doing my ‘real’ work, I began to doodle. This is the end result. It took a while because it was freehanded with a mouse (not as easy as it sounds). It was fun though, perhaps I’ll do some more illustrations like that.

I reccomend pretty much every artsy blog out there now for better feats at this. It’s fun! Go look!

My blog, this blog, is 1 year old!

I have really loved the world of blogging so far and have so much planned from Jan. 1st ‘10 onwards. It has been great so far communicating and sharing and all that despite 2009 being a very awkward year for me. So 2010 will be a fresh start with lots. So please keep visiting, commenting and sharing. I really love reading other blogs, so if you haven’t already then let me know your blog address!

[The original Moses photo is here.!].

I’m very pleased to have shot a whole new batch of images as a part of an on-going series I’ve been working on for four years now.

The ‘Retail’ series (originally titled ‘American Retail’ and still very much subject to change), was something I started on a whim with a disposable camera inside a Lake Buena Vista, Florida, grocery store. It has since developed into a series of images, all very similar (but then that’s the point or part of it at least), shot in everything from Large Format to Digital, disposables, 35mm, holga and good old Medium Format in between. Taken all over Florida, in Texas, New York, New Jersey. Well, now I’ve come back to the UK (for now) and decided to expand this on-going project. Last year I sold a set of limited edition, unique C-Type prints from this series and got some nice response that spurred me on.

I’m an on-going project kind of girl. This is one of three, perhaps four, on-going photographic projects I have. Some I don’t know if I’ll ever complete and although I’m a girl who likes to tie up all the loose ends, some projects I just can’t do that with. This is one of those projects. It’s probably boring to many already, but I’m not bored yet so I’ll keep going until I am. I think it’s productive though for all artists to leave work open to be continued, it’s fun and encouraging.

So, check back very shortly for the first full set from ‘British Retail’. The blog will be the first place I post them and I might start testing print types and sizes for a small solo show of this series. I just have to finish my artists statement.

In the meantime here are a select few of my favourites from the ‘American Retail’ installation.

It’s about time I got my ‘artist’ self back, she’d been in ahiding for a while.

Just getting my job titles in check!

This photo really reminds me of my older work. I think it’ll look great printed, especially large, so I’m going to run a few off. If you’re interested in buying a signed copy then drop me a note. I’ve been pretty busy lately, but I did manage to buy an iPhone 3Gs. I have a competition coming up here on the blog which I’m looking forward to, it’s the first of many, so stay tuned in. I’m actually putting my money where my mouth is.