Dawn is a visual artists based in Berkshire, her practice utilises the landscape of Berkshire, Oxford and Dorset, she currently works between all three counties in the production of her work. Much time is spent outside all year round and her connection to the natural world is important to her, as it provides great peace and solace, as well as healing and as such is of great significance to her. She is currently a teacher and Head of Photography at Bradfield College in Berkshire.

My practise is centred around the loss of my brother and the paradoxical feelings that grief leaves and through my photographic work I have endeavoured to visualise these feelings with photography, itself a paradoxical medium which simultaneously records reality, whilst deconstructing and reassembling it .

Within my creative practise the images explore the boundaries between spaces, land and sea, as if the distance between realities has a physical boundary you could push against touch, like the film upon the surface of the sea. The hag stone, a means of protection, also offers up a way to penetrate that boundary.

In his book Ghost Ways Robert Macfarlane describes his book as, holding a hagstone up to the landscape, and shows the skulls beneath its skin. My camera is like a hag stone that can be held up to the landscape that can disclose my history, how my memories are trodden and ground into those familiar places. I now find solace where once I could not tread as the ghost of memories woven in the very places, I loved unnerved me.