I quietly create handmade 1840s calotype’s as part of my healing, and I write about grief, fear, and endurance so people who are hurting feel less alone.
Using 19th-century chemistry and vintage soft-focus lenses, I craft every calotype by hand—one sheet at a time. The result is a body of work that embraces imperfection, stillness, and emotional presence. These are not documents. They are quiet visual poems—fragile, reflective, and timeless.
“This work is slow because it matters. Few will understand it. Fewer still will do it. But those who recognize its truth will never forget it. I’m not here to be seen quickly—I’m here to be seen deeply”. -Tim Layton
Art Buyers & Collector Information
Original handmade ammonio-nitrate of sliver salt prints from whole plate calotype paper negatives are available in a limited edition of 100. Each one is contact printed in the darkroom from the original large format calotype paper negative using 19th-century methods. The entire process is 100% analog—from the hand-coated paper negative to the final salted paper print—just as it was practiced in the 1840s. Printed on cotton rag paper and finished by hand, each piece is processed to archival standards and carefully inspected by the artist. Every print is titled, signed, dated, and accompanied by a numbered certificate of authenticity. This is a rare opportunity to collect a true historical photographic process, revived and practiced with care and intention.
Archival pigment ink reproductions of this handmade salted paper print—created from original calotype paper negatives—are available in limited quantities. Each print is produced to the highest standards using museum-quality cotton rag paper and archival pigment-based inks. While not a contact-printed salt print, these reproductions faithfully preserve the tonal character and emotional depth of the original. Every print is hand-signed, titled, dated, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. The artist carefully inspects each piece before shipping.
Pictorial Whispers: Windowlight Studies
I quietly create handmade 1840s calotype paper negatives and ammonio-nitrate of silver salt prints as part of my own healing, and I write about grief, fear, and endurance so people who are hurting feel less alone.
Windowlight, glass, and flowers are the quiet grammar of my Pictorial Whispers – Windowlight Studies artwork. Working with 1840s calotype paper negatives and ammonio-nitrate of silver salt prints, I lean into 19th-century Pictorialism to render flowers as studies in emotion rather than specimens. Each handmade calotype and salt print is a visual note from one moment in my grief and endurance. Every print is paired with pages from my artist journal—simple reflections on what I was feeling and thinking that day. Through these images and words, I hope people living with grief, fear, or anxiety can see part of their own story and know they are not alone.
2026 Pictorial Whispers Limited Edition
Artist Stories & Behind The Scenes
- Plate 1 “Learning to Breathe in the Dark” [full details]
- Plate 2 “Standing in the Shadows” [coming soon]
2022-2025 Calotypes
Pictorial Whispers — Winter Sentinels: Ozark Lone Trees
Bare trees, stripped of ornament, become line and gesture. Working with handmade calotype paper negatives and platinum/palladium prints, I lean into winter’s austerity to show Resilience rather than absence. Fog, frost, and quiet fields simplify the world until each tree reads as a figure—steadfast, weathered, and wholly itself. These plates are not landscapes as much as encounters: a conversation between trunk and sky, weight and light, and the land that keeps it—an abiding Connection through seasonal Transformation.
This work is slow, fragile, and made entirely by hand. If it speaks to you, I invite you to become a member and help keep it alive.
Pictorial Whispers — Veiled Horizons: Quiet Light
Quiet light turns the Ozark landscape into tone and distance. Working with handmade calotype paper negatives and platinum/palladium prints, I favor subdued moments—fog, overcast, first light—where form softens and space becomes layered. Detail yields to atmosphere, so ridgelines, fields, and tree lines read as gestures more than records. These plates explore the Connection between land and air, and seasonal Transformation, inviting the eye to rest and the mind to wander while the land’s Resilience hums underneath.
Art Collector Resources
- Collector and Student Testimonials [read]
- Collector’s Guide [read]
- Why Analog Photography is Essential to Fine Art Creation [read]
- Why I Create [read]
- Aura – What is it, and why does it matter? [read]
- Why Analog Photography Is a Smart Investment [read]
- Analog photography in the Digital Age: Examining transformation, alienation and authenticity in modern photographic practice. https://doi.org/10.55927/ijads.v2i3.11019
