In May 1999 we opened up our house to the public for the first time and showed the work of nine other artists and makers along with my own as part of Brighton's extraordinary grass-roots festival. Now as The Dog House we open each May.

This May I'm showing an entirely new series of pictures, with the indulgent and mostly happy help of friends: a series of fantasy portraits I've come to think of as Little People. This brazenly and shamelessly uses Photoshop and could do no else. I've spliced photographs of one of our chairs with separate posed portraits of friends and family. I had to find a way of ensuring the subject's feet dangled, and that the lighting then matched. I'm hoping to retrieve the idea of Photoshop as a valid tool that needs skill and ingenuity.

This series is something of a joke; but I also find intriguing the vulnerability of the final image.

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