AN ARTIST who uses empty paint tins as pinhole cameras will show work created over the last 18 months, at the Lansdown Gallery from Monday, November 7.

Jacki Storey has captured a series of ‘uncanny’ views of Stroud and beyond, using a simple DIY camera, without a lens but with a tiny aperture, a pinhole – it is effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side.

Jacki can often be seen out and about in Stroud, experimenting with her Heath Robinson type apparatus and a bag full of tins, with photographic paper inside.

“My interest is in Freud’s ‘uncanny’,” she said, “which is a disturbance or undermining of the familiar.”

Jacki gained a PhD from the University of Gloucestershire in 2006, in which she explored the disturbance of the familiar though the ability of light to reveal and conceal objects and spaces.

“Pinhole images have a softness, timelessness and dreamlike quality,” she said.

“Although it’s extremely challenging and unpredictable, I guess it’s the combination of control and chance or serendipity, that fascinates me.

“The excitement or disappointment in the darkroom as the image is slowly revealed in the chemical baths.”

Exhibition runs until November 13.