I studied Television Programme Operations at Ravensbourne college having spent a year in a darkroom at home developing and printing my own photographs. I thought I'd go into editing but while working at Framestore (employee number 29) I discovered Telecine and made the leap into colouring.

‘Layer Cake’ was my first full feature so has a special place. Both DoP Ben Davis and I discovered so much with that film, as we'd come from a commercials background. ‘Ex Machina’ following ‘The Invisible Woman’ was an extraordinary experience as well, as both were shot by Rob Hardy but yet were so different in look.

Rob Hardy wanted a softer contrast for ‘Ex Machina’ with subtle golden tones. Shot with smoke in the atmosphere and often through several pieces of glass in the interview scenes we had to find ways to add contrast, or "bite" as we called it, without bringing out any noise in the image.

After several passes we made the grey body of Ava more neutral with some added blue so that she separated from the backgrounds.

‘The Crown’, ‘Tin Star’, ‘The Mercy’. Obviously ‘The Crown’ has been a wonderful production to work on. Beautifully shot and creatively collaborative and having won a BAFTA it was a really special project.