Gilded photography
Despite their etching-like appearance, these artworks are created...
Photographs to be gilded are selected with care, as not all lend themselves to the concept. During a pre-printing stage, a chosen image is adjusted to enhance its colour, contrast, and key details, to ensure a perfect blend with its gilded background.
Delicate and unforgiving to handle, gilding leaf requires a lot of skill and close attention, but the finished image comes alive, projecting reflections of gold, silver and copper as they change constantly with the light.
Please do see the videos here to truly appreciate the lustre of each artwork, which is extremely hard to show in a photograph.
Following much experimentation and study, I have developed a process that encapsulates the spirit and vision of my work, evoking timeless, ethereal and other-worldly images, created by hand gilding gold, silver or copper leaf within each limited edition print.
The gilded photography needs to be seen in the flesh to do justice to the amazing depth, lustre and iridescence that is ever-changing with light.





