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.