The main focus of my practice is exploring the various technical possibilities within
printmaking by pushing to the limit what can be done. Lately I have been utilising the
properties of paper itself as ‘object’ combining the illusion of the fleeting moment with the
durability of the material. The landscape with it’s human interventions and attempts at
control are the starting points for my work.
Currently my work is exploring ideas around time; measuring time and perhaps containing
time within layered sheets of tissue and heavy printmaking papers. Printmaking and the
possibility of the repeat is what endlessly interests me not to make editions but to build
something more akin to object. My environment and my place within it provides the
subject, not a literal translation but a response to place.
Since graduating with an MA in printmaking I have shown my work in solo and group
exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA and have been employed as printmaking technician and
principal learning officer at Cheltenham art collage and Leeds metropolitan university as
well as visiting lecturer at various colleges and universities. I have been running
printmaking workshops at different levels since arriving in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire including with adults
with learning difficulties at Artspace Cinderford and individual tuition and small group
workshops in my own studio.