I am a sculptor and printmaker based in Charlbury, near Oxford. My work ranges from site-specific installations and sculpture to traditional printmaking.
After a Fine Art degree from De Montfort University, I attended UWE Bristol, where I completed an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking.
I love the challenge of making work in response to locations objects and ideas, looking at marks, traces and records and making the ordinary extraordinary.
I particularly like to encourage people to engage with my work and to this end I endeavour to take my work to the public rather than expecting them to find me.
I run printmaking workshops in my studio for both adults and children.
Haida Panel
These prints were inspired by North American Indian objects I sketched in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Tetra Pak linings were used for the collagraph plates. After printing, the panel is coated with encaustic wax to give it a translucency
Ephemeral
I woke up one morning realising everything we do is ephemeral, some things more than others. The DaVinci fresco of the Last Supper will not last for ever. I etched the words in lino and was particularly pleased by the way Christ appears on the central O.
Elements
These copper and zinc etchings were made by allowing the etchant to flow down an angled plate and etch it the way a river flows through sand. They were printed using high pressure to create an embossed image.
Cawston Panel
Cawston apple juice carton lining was treated in various ways to create collagraph plates. I like the way the recycled packaging flaps and creases are still visible. After printing, the panel is coated with encaustic wax to give it a translucency.
Botles bowls and Jug
Three plates etched and aquatinted inked separately and printed on top of each other.
Bottles and Bowls
I have cut shapes from foil lined Tetra Pak cartons and made plates using dry point and other techniques. I arranged and overlapped the intaglio and relief inked elements to create a still life group.
Arctic Wilderness
I used the rather unpredictable lino etching process, inked intaglio and relief, to try to create the wildness of the Arctic.
Totem
These images from North American Indian objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum are viscosity prints.
The Oxfordshire Way
Walking the Oxfordshire Way in winter I saw these discarded items. The route of the Oxfordshire Way is screen printed on top of the six prints.
After Peter Lanyon
This etched lino print is inspired by Peter Lanyon’s aerial views of Cornwall.
In a Million Years
These columns represent the rock core samples taken by geologists. You can see the brief Anthropocene period when we inhabited the planet in brightly coloured sections.
Yoga
To celebrate a Yoga teacher’s fiftieth birthday, I printed ten images of Yoga mats on top of a collagraph representing piles of Yoga blocks. The intention was to create a calm spirituality.