St Ives, Cornwall, 2017

‘With my ongoing fascination with the seaside this is a set of images taken with a telephoto lens, where I explore distant figures on the beach, usually with out of focus greenery in the foreground. Although each is an individual work, they become a fascinating grid when put together. This lens, with its ability to flatten and compress, has been somewhat shunned by the art world (with the honourable exception of Beat Streuli) so I was keen to explore what was possible’