I am the third generation of photographers in my family. My influences come from the visual languages of abstract art. I refer to much of my work as abstract realism. I seek to create images in a single photographic frame that use line, shape, texture and, sometimes, colour to create an aesthetic, often made up of a geometric structure defined as much by the space around it and the influence of light as by its physical form. I then seek an additional dimension which usually comes from a human presence that in some way contrasts or harmonises with the composition to give it greater depth and energy.

I am drawn to the built world and the way it influences our lives. That was my first thought when embarking on Aesthetic Dynamic back in 1982 - that every single day there is an exciting interplay between the structures we live within, light and people, which mostly goes by ignored.

There is a huge time gap in my work. In 1985 I took the decision to concentrate on building a secure career for myself and, not long after, my family. I completely turned away from my photographic work because I knew I could only succeed by giving one or the other one hundred percent. Having chosen the more commercial direction and achieved that goal, the pendulum in my life is now swinging the other way. My coming back to Aesthetic Dynamic feels totally natural and seamless - unfinished business which I suspect, one way or another, will now occupy the rest of my life.