Audrey Searle was a school teacher before pursuing a career as an artist. As a mature student she studied sculpture, then photography at West Wales School of the Arts at Carmarthen.

Her work focuses around the relationship between society and the natural world and is explored through a variety of media, the most recent of which is photography.

Much of the exploration is done in the evenings when it is dark or dusk and the shadows and low light reveal the world in a different way that invites inspection.

In her most recent body of photographs, the relationship is a much more personal one and subject matter can be seen as metaphors for social attitudes. Some are about loss, others challenge perceptions of the ageing process that come from the glorification of youth and beauty.

Experimentation takes place at all stages but the time spent in the darkroom is the most exciting for the artist where she can see and affect the emerging images in dramatic or subtle ways.