I had signed up to do the advanced class in printmaking with digital content at City Lit lead by course leader Rolina Blok.

Needing to find what theme I was going to work on I found inspiration in a photograph of my mother standing at the kitchen sink in the 1950’s.

It seems to be a quintessential image of a woman’s role in the 1950’s and sparked my imagination. How could I use this image of my mother in my work?

It’s already abstract, it appears I need to distance myself somehow to make my work.

I visited a flea market in Paris in December 2019. Somehow I’d found out there was a stall there selling old photographs. At first I’d felt uneasy using found images of unknown people but some friends who run a cafe and gallery down the road told me they often bought photographs like this from boot sales.

I bought some amazing images to use.

So many questions about these images, who are these people, how did their photographs end up in a flea market, didn’t their families want them anymore?

I’m fascinated by them, my choice of image seemed to be mostly of women.

I started to visit some car boot sales in London and found some gems. These images are taken from a photo album I found in Pimlico, they look like they come from the 1920’s.