For the last ten years I have lived in the West Sussex village of Felpham. The poet, writer and printmaker William Blake once lived in the same village – his only home outside London. He lived in Felpham from 1800 until 1803 and described the village as “the sweetest spot on Earth”, a place where “voices of Celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard and their forms more distinctly seen”.

In Blake’s lifetime, Felpham was a tiny isolated village of just 305 people living in 71 houses. Today the village houses over ten thousand and forms part of an almost continuous conurbation stretching from Bognor Regis to Brighton. This series of photographs explores the twenty first century village landscape in the context of Blake’s writing. By using photographs of the village today, alongside words penned by Blake some two hundred years ago, I try to investigate ideas of “home” and belonging.

I am a UK-based photographer and printmaker. My practice explores relationships between People, Place and Time. My recent work has looked at:

• how our current lifestyles compete with the demands of the environment and how these conflicts can be expressed visually

• how our landscape has been shaped by human occupation over the millennia, and how, as humans in the twenty first century, we now relate to these changes

I use both digital and traditional analogue techniques, both for image creation and for the final realisation of my work.

I am currently studying for my MA (Photography) at the University of Brighton in the UK.