For a long time I have been fascinated in how we represent the fiction of ourselves through images. Now through an interest in creative writing I am making new work which brings image and text together; exploring how best to present the pictures and words so that a tension is created between them. My aim is not to instruct the viewer of the image what to think when reading the text, which might well limit the possibilities of meaning in the image, but I try to create a tension which may open up new ways of looking.

The pictures: I often use a pinhole camera made from the furniture in my house and in these pictures I am particularly interested in the role of scale. I also use our family snaps and 'found' photographs like our old post card collection.

The words: two years ago I received a grant from Southern Arts to work with Peter Middleton - poet and creative writing teacher at Southampton University - to explore the place of words in relation to my visual work. I had no idea what the result would be nor even where to start. It has been an exciting development and this exhibition is really an experiment to see where I am now.

It is hard to read text on screen so I have made the detective story and a walk to the Finca into pdfs which you can print out if you wish.