The term 'Nocturne' is used to connote night or evening. It might also be used to describe an instrumental composition of a dreamy or pensive nature.

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Armed with an appreciation of Chopin's Nocturnes, an empathetic connection to animals and a love of the Dutch Masters’ unrivalled treatment of light and shadow, I have set about to explore the amorphous space that exists in the twilight separating reality from fiction, consciousness from the subconscious and animal from human. 

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​This body of work strives to juxtapose the unselfconscious beauty, grace and ferocity of beast with the exploitative and all too often cruel indifference of their bipedal brethren. 

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I offer these images up as a guilty nod to my own complicity in this objectification and as a visual ode to the suffering, the majesty and the disparate intelligence of all the creatures that we humans share this world with.  

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'We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

 

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