I am very lucky - I spend my working life doing something I love. Food and photography and design are high on the list of my passions. A

discerning interest in good food, design and photography was instilled in me in childhood by my artistic, foodie, father and talented

Swedish mother, and it has led my career through jobs art directing in book publishing and onto major magazines (including being Art

Director of the UK Good Housekeeping and being responsible for the initial design and concept of UK Country Living magazine). My main interest was

always photography and in particular food photography and I worked with the best food photographers in London in the eighties. Eventually I found

that I was frustrated trying to get others to turn my ideas into photographs and wanted to take the photographs myself and so, in 1990, began a

rewarding new career in food and lifestyle photography, based in London but also undertaking interesting location trips to Europe, particularly France

and Italy and to South Africa, and the United States. I delight in producing fresh and natural images with daylight or a daylight photography feel

(perhaps relating to my half Swedish origins) and enjoy working in my relaxed loft studio near London's Barbican.

The studio is equipped with masses of interesting props for food photography and the overall look provides a great backdrop for lifestyle shoots. I shoot

digitally (of course) and love the speed and efficiency, the flexibility and added creativity that the digital workflow gives to food photography now. My

clients range from big corporate names like McDonalds, Disney or Tesco to small, start-up food and lifestyle businesses but I hope they all enjoy the

same level of service and the same creative approach to taking good, effective food and lifestyle pictures.

I live in a fifteenth century cottage in rural Kent with my writer husband, Andro Linklater, and small terrier Conker, and visit my family and friends in

Sweden whenever possible.