‘Look close enough and you will find many hidden treasures.’

As an artist I find myself exploring the general public. I go out with my camera and take photographs of anything that I am drawn to and more often than not this is the unnoticed. The above image was taken at Oxford Street in London a few months ago and I have used it to represent my practise purely because it does exactly this. Oxford Street is a well-known tourist attraction and within the image defines this, such as the obvious black cab and big red bus. But as you can see those were not my focus – the taxi and bus is blurred – at all, the lady was. My quote explains exactly this, most people go to London to see the ‘obvious black cab and big red bus’ but I look closer than this and by doing so I believe I find many hidden treasures.

Oxford Street, London 2017