For many years I worked as a stylist and writer, working on home interior features for magazines such as Homes & Gardens, Homes & Antiques and The World of Interiors. I wrote and styled over thirteen books on interiors and crafts.

In 2008 I was given the Buddhist name Vilokini - ‘she who looks, sees, who contemplates and is aware,’ a name I continually work to live up to. I attained a Masters degree in printmaking a few years later at The Cambridge School of Art, and I became interested in the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi. Wabi sabi evokes a beauty of things impermanent, imperfect and incomplete. A corrugated iron barn, left to rust in the fens of Cambridgeshire, the weathered walls of a painted monastery in the Bulgarian mountains, the abandoned wooden buildings of a wartime camp school in Yorkshire, or simply a forgotten umbrella left in a Venetian alleyway. These are all places and things that have focussed my awareness. I seek out beauty that is unconventional, humble, and often overlooked, but my guiding principle is always the story behind places that have held a richness of human experience.


My mentors, Joanna Maclennan, and Tim Clinch are internationally renowned photographers, and their inspiration, encouragement and advice through the medium of ‘Two Photographers,’ online workshops, discussions and assignments has continually pushed me out of my comfort zone. 

Portrait by Onur Pinar