Mary Davis ARPS

I create simple still-life images from everyday antique and modern household objects, flowers and fruit. The light and shadows are as important to me as shapes and textures.

Email: maryd5@hotmail.com

 The relationship between the objects as I arrange them is critical – they should harnonise in their tone and form. I like using glass objects as their reflections add another dimension.

Beauty can be found in many everyday objects and it is this that I try to capture. My work is mostly film-based in black and white, hand printed onto fibre based paper. I work in either very high-key or very low key – I enjoy the technical challenge this brings.

In the future – I am working with a digital camera which has opened up the use of colour and making abstract images.

Influences – Jean Chardin, Georgio Morandi, Picasso, Paul Nash.
Andre Kertesz – an Hungarian photographer – street photography, often with a still-life element.
John Blakemore – Fay Godwin