Sitting in her wedding dress, a woman wears an Iron Man mask,wedding dresses from china surrounded by wild foliage, a plastic python peeking over her shoulder, an apple in her hand and a Dali-esque lobster at her feet.

If you are into a minimal aesthetic, then Anna Bean's surreal scenes will not be to your tastes.

However, she has plenty of fans. In fact, her fanbase has been growing rapidly since she worked with Mercury Prize- nominated band Guillemots on their latest album cover.

"It was quite daunting. The first time I went to London to meet them, they had hired all this fancy dress," Anna said.

"It was all a bit weird.A-Line Wedding Dresses"

It wasn't the costumes that fazed her, as Anna routinely gets her subjects to monkey around in masks, but working with strangers under such tight time constraints was new to the photographer.

There were no second chances to get the right shot.

Anna said: "On the train coming back I was really panicked, looking at the pictures, thinking 'have I got it?'

"I tweeted Fyfe (Dangerfield, lead singer) the photo and he loved it so that put my mind at rest."

The collaboration came about after the band played at Fruit in Humber Street, Hull, this year and Fyfe spotted Anna's work.

He bought one of her pieces tquinceanera dresses red and blackhen sent her a long email, heaping praise on her and asking her to shoot their next couple of album covers.

She created the cover for their album Hello Land! which was released last May. The band were photographed in a springtime floral theme.

Anna said it was exciting to think of how many people will have seen her photo, especially a certain music legend.

"Paul Weller was on BBC Radio 6 and said the last album he'd bought was Guillemots and he really loved it," Anna said.

"I'm a big fan and it was amazing that he owns something I've done."

Anna, 48, takes inspiration more from oils than celluloid. Looking at old masters, she mimics the shades of traditional paintings and hangs her work in regal gilt frames.

Pop culture references spring up throughout her work – Jane Fonda's Barbarella is transposed to the industrial backdrop of Paul. Romance novelist Barbara Cartland has a menacing makeover in some of her latest work.

"I like to use oversaturated colours to draw in the viewer with glossy, pretty pictures but then there is something unsettling about them,cheap mother of the bride dresses" she said.

"It is like the things we choose to forget from childhood, such as dolls and clowns.

"It is what you thought might be hiding under your bed."

The creative juices never stop flowing and Anna continually works on new ideas. Luckily, she has plenty of outlets to show them off.

She is currently showing work at the Being In HU5 exhibition at Union Mash Up in Princes Avenue, west Hull. It is a collective show which turned into a family affair when her son Louis, 17, got involved.

Exhibiting his illustrations for the first time,bridesmaid dresses 2012 the teen, who is studying art at A level, inherited his mum's passion for creativity. Anna obviously gives her son help and guidance but that is not her only teaching role. She has her own students to inspire, when she works part-time at Hull College, teaching photography.