I'm sitting in my work room listening to Lark ascending - Vaughan Williams at his most sublime - and looking for inspiring images of hairstyles, and I got completely sidetracked by hats. Well not exactly hats but 'things' worn as hats. Things - like plastic carrier bags, bubble wrap, tin foil ...icing bags! The only way to make any sense of this discovery is to show you in images taken by Hendrik Kersten of his daughter Paula. Click on the image below to find out more about t

Moira Shearer and Marius Goring in The Red Shoes 1948 I am my father's daughter - he loved movies and the movies he loved I grew up loving too. Movies such as 'The Red shoes', one of his all time favourites, and 'A matter of life and death' which is one of mine. What do these two films have in common? They were beautifully shot by Jack Cardiff. Kathleen Byron as Sister Ruth in Black Narcissus 1947 Click on the above image for 'Painting With Light - Jack Cardiff On Black Narci

Why inspiring for me as an artist? I love the fact that his photographs are not cropped, what he saw through the view finder is exactly what you see in the printed photograph, and that he believed in composing that image in the viewfinder, he had an artists eye and mind...as evinced by the quotes below: "Technique is important only insofar as you must master it in order to communicate what you see... The camera for us is a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy. In the precise fun