At the beginning of the pandemic and the first lockdown of March 2020, I found myself in France with my husband and ended up being there for an extended period while the world went into panic and lockdown. Despite the gloomy sentiment mother nature carried on and spring flowers started to bloom everywhere. Daily walks in the remote parts of the south of France became an exciting opportunity to find more wildflowers. I started photographing the flowers in my studio and collected a small portfolio of flowers that I call ‘Fleur Sauvage”

For someone who had never photographed anything but people professionally, this was an exciting and inspiring new adventure. These have now blossomed beautifully into two parts, the flower collection and a new collection which blends my figurative work with these beautiful flowers. It seemed a natural progression of joining the dots as I had already been blending my portraits of artists with their artwork.

The flowers themselves symbols of femininity and beauty merged perfectly into and onto the female form. They have grown into a collection of sensual and colourful images, a celebration of mother nature and the power and beauty of the female form and the gift of life.