Meet the Maker
FieldNote began on a ten-day fishing trip off the North East coast of Scotland, resulting a collection of black and white photographs — weathered faces, working boats, vast open water.
Those images led to years of work with the Christian charity The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, travelling every major fishing port in the UK, photographing and documenting the communities I found there. That work eventually led to the production of an award-winning cookery book, Best of British Fish, published by Mitchell Beazley in 2005 — a celebration of the British fishing industry and sustainable eating, with royalties going directly to the Fishermen's Mission.
Years later, after a period of burnout, I found myself returning to those photographs, and the process of pairing them with Scripture became quietly healing.
That experience became the heartbeat of FieldNote. If pairing gritty, black and white photography with the Word of God had helped restore something in me, perhaps it could do the same for others.
Every product I create is rooted in that belief: that beauty, truth and Scripture together have the power to lift the spirit and support genuine mental wellbeing.