Nature has been the inspiration for artists throughout history — in color, in shape, in form. It has certainly been mine.

In 1842, Sir John Herschel discovered that coating paper with a solution of iron salts, exposing it to sunlight, and washing it with water produced something extraordinary: an image in white against a deep, luminous blue. Prussian Blue. He used the method to copy his notes and diagrams. The word blueprint comes from exactly this.

A year later, the botanist and illustrator Anna Atkins took the process somewhere else entirely. In 1843 she produced Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions — three volumes of pressed algae contact-printed onto sensitized paper, now recognized as the first photographically illustrated book ever made. She was meticulous, prolific, and entirely ahead of her time.

What draws me to cyanotype is its patience and its intimacy with the natural world. A leaf pressed directly onto sensitized paper, the sun doing the rest — there is something quietly profound about that. No filter, no distance. Just the plant, the light, and the chemistry between them. I have been working with this process for over a decade, gathering botanicals while traveling, layering them with mixed media, and letting each print find its own character.

Each piece is made by hand and exists as a single original.

The collection below is a selection of recent impressions.