Hello! I’m a photographer, writer and e-course creator living in the UK. I hold an HND in photography and a first-class degree in journalism, and spent many years in London working as a fashion editor and freelance journalist. So that’s the career stuff out of the way.

At the beginning of 2005 my partner died very suddenly from a heart attack; soon after I left London to live in a small flat beside the sea. Thirteen months into my grieving I started writing a blog called Ink on my fingers; blogging was (and continues to be) a way to share my heart and connect with others while diving back into my creativity. A trip to the USA in November 2006 rekindled my passion for photography; surrounded by so many new sights, the camera focussed my attention on the present, taking me out of my grief and allowing me to connect with how I was feeling in the moment. It was a revelation.

Returning home I threw myself into digital photography, learning new skills and taking photos every day.  Lately I’ve been shooting solely with film – my first love – but whether it’s analogue or digital, I find that photography is a form of meditation for me. As I moved through the stages of grief I unravelled layer after layer of my self, a painful yet ultimately healing process; it was therapy and my renewed passion for photography that stitched me back together again, with a profoundly changed view of the world and my place in it.

On January 1st 2007 I started a photo blog and wanted to find a title that encapsulated what my photography was about and where I was in my life at that point – Unravelling (I use the British spelling) was the word I chose as it perfectly described both my healing path and my picture-making processes: unravelling… letting go… peeling back the layers to find the real beauty inside.

In 2008 I began teaching Unravelling workshops locally, and in January 2009 I launched my first e-course, Unravelling: Ways of Seeing My Self, with the sequel following in May 2010. The success of the courses has been both humbling and mind-blowing, and I’m thrilled to now be writing my first book, to be published in autumn 2011.

The healing path is one that never ends and it’s my hope that by sharing what I’ve learnt I can help others reconnect to their own true selves, using photography as the key to unlock the door.