Peel Castle at dusk, Isle of Man
Isle of Man  ·  Fine Art Photography  ·  Celtic North Atlantic

Wild.
Ancient.
Feminine.

Visual storytelling rooted in the mythology, landscape, and slow fashion of the Celtic and Norse North Atlantic world.

Queen of Moss & Myth

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Signs she has Celtic roots — Peel Castle

Portraits  ·  Peel Castle

The Language of Old Walls

On the Moddey Dhoo, the Pagan Lady of Peel, and photographing a place steeped in a thousand years of myth.

2025

She Belongs to the Moss — Isle of Man woodland

Portraits  ·  Mythology

She Belongs to the Moss

On the Glashtyn of the Manx glens, ancient hawthorn trees, and the twenty-million-year-old laurissilva forest of Madeira.

2025

The Wind Knows Her Name — Isle of Man dunes

Portraits  ·  Isle of Man

The Wind Knows Her Name

On the Cailleach, the cloak of Manannan, and photographing the open landscape of the Isle of Man.

2025

Visual storytelling rooted in the ancient North Atlantic world.

Fine art photographer and Photographer in Residence for Visit Isle of Man 2025–26. My work lives at the intersection of mythology, landscape, and the feminine seasonal cycle.

She has Celtic roots. Obviously.


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Wild

Rooted in landscape, undomesticated by trend

Ancient

Celtic mythology, Norse heritage, the slow turn of seasons

Feminine

The archetype, the body, the cycle — not the aesthetic

Inaugural Role  ·  2025–26  ·  BBC Featured

Biosphere Photographer in Residence

Appointed as the Isle of Man's first-ever Biosphere Photographers in Residence alongside Adam Morgan — a year-long residency titled Nature as Your Muse: Portraiture and Wildlife Through the Celtic Wheel.

Developed by Manx Wildlife Trust in collaboration with Visit Isle of Man and UNESCO Biosphere Isle of Man — celebrating the world's only whole-nation UNESCO Biosphere Reserve through the Celtic Wheel of the Year.

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Inaugural role

First-ever Biosphere Photographers in Residence on the Isle of Man

BBC

Featured

BBC News coverage of the appointment and residency work

UNESCO

Biosphere nation

The world's only whole-nation UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

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She Belongs to the Moss — white dress in mossy woodland

Portraits  ·  Mythology

She Belongs to the Moss

On the Glashtyn, ancient hawthorn trees, and the twenty-million-year-old laurissilva forest of Madeira.

May 2025

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The Wind Knows Her Name — figure in windswept dunes

Portraits  ·  Isle of Man

The Wind Knows Her Name

On the Cailleach, Manannan's cloak, and the human figure in an ancient landscape.

December 2023

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