The yellow casserole is a colourful accent in the kitchen but no more than that until the kitchen window was replaced by a 1930s stained-glass window through which the light enters in the morning and reflects on the also yellow tiles of the kitchen wall. Suddenly, the casserole is more than just a yellow accent but, together with the glass, has taken on a nostalgic and romantic connotation reminiscent of old kitchens in farmhouses, country houses and castles. Of kitchens where fresh ingredients from their own vegetable gardens are cooked with care and attention and where game and poultry stew for long periods of time, filling the whole kitchen with the smell of cooking and making everyone look forward to the beautifully laid table with the sparkling wine glasses or the informal wooden farmhouse table where everyone can fill their own plate and, over glasses of country wine, talk long and hard and enjoy each other's company. An image with promise. Even if this pan is in the ordinary kitchen of an ordinary home.
My great loves are the water and everything about it. Ships, travel, history and photography. The combination is therefore very common in my photographic work. Most photographs are created intuitively. It is an image that strikes me, usually a combination of form and color in which a.. Read more…