About
Keith spent most of his early childhood in Germany and toured Europe with his parents, clutching a Kodak reflex camera which he pointed at landscapes, people, found objects and abstractions seen through the camera’s square viewfinder - the frame that he still returns to now. Thus began an early education in the use of light, texture, line and curve to bring order and simplicity to his images. An engineering degree at Imperial College London slowed this interest until he found a disused dark-room at his workplace and an unused 35mm Zeiss Contessa of his parents. Based in Portsmouth he loved to roam the winter coasts of Hampshire and Sussex with their boarded huts, shingle beaches and channel storms. A later move to Surrey and a honeymoon at Lands End led to a passion for the ancient woods of the Surrey Hills and many visits to the granite harshness of the West Penwith peninsula which he explored with his first SLR.
In the eighties Keith became a member of the photography ‘advanced studies group’ at Missenden Abbey for over a decade. The ASG was a small group of photographers under the guidance of the Canadian photographer and educator Brian Nevitt. There he learnt to refine the art of seeing and the possibilities of depth and rich tonality in black and white prints. His darkroom still waits at the top of his house while he embraces the digital world and its disciplines. He enjoys travel but often returns to the Surrey Hills and the Sussex and Cornish coasts for his landscapes and continues to indulge his love for found objects, still-life and abstract composition. He believes that any camera can be a tool to create inspired work and still uses the square format, making his images in black and white using light, line and tone for their ability to stir visual emotion in the viewer.
In the eighties Keith became a member of the photography ‘advanced studies group’ at Missenden Abbey for over a decade. The ASG was a small group of photographers under the guidance of the Canadian photographer and educator Brian Nevitt. There he learnt to refine the art of seeing and the possibilities of depth and rich tonality in black and white prints. His darkroom still waits at the top of his house while he embraces the digital world and its disciplines. He enjoys travel but often returns to the Surrey Hills and the Sussex and Cornish coasts for his landscapes and continues to indulge his love for found objects, still-life and abstract composition. He believes that any camera can be a tool to create inspired work and still uses the square format, making his images in black and white using light, line and tone for their ability to stir visual emotion in the viewer.