Stephen Rothwell

Stephen Rothwell uses a wide range of  techniques his work, both traditional and digital, combining my own photography with found imagery and photographs from his archive of early photography  with  painting , drawing and whatever else works in the moment to create a cohesive and believable whole. “I don't have a  particular image in mind when I start, I just begin and see what emerges, refining and resolving as I go until the image completes itself.”

In this series, each image is akin to a fleeting moment from a dream, or perhaps a single  frame  from a now  long lost film, rescued from the cutting room floor. A phantasmagoric moment frozen in time.What came before or after is lost, leaving it to the viewer to  interpret the image and imagine possible narratives extending to and from that moment.