Seaweed Portraits - Photograms.

The rock pools in Priest’s Cove in Cornwall were the primary focus during a joint residency in 2013 with the photographer Martin Urmson at Brisons Veor. Both of us were involved in capturing the jewel-like qualities of the rock pools. After initial tests with seaweed it became clear that my photograms needed structure – to this end I used a glass bowl. The shape was reminiscent of the bottom of a bucket but also of the round porthole windows at Brisons Veor and microscope images. I made a series of portraits of the many different types of seaweeds at Priest’s Cove, for example landlady’s wig and bladder wrack. Martin and I wanted to find a way to combine our two responses to the rock pools, with the result that we each selected work and combined them into a final set of images that referenced Victorian vignettes or embroidery in “Seaweed Vignettes.” www.brisonsveor.org.uk