Much of my work is produced at the Tamar Print Workshop on the edge of Dartmoor run by Master printmaker Mary Gillett, she has taught me so much.
My work is drawing-based using time-honoured methods and materials, pen and ink and traditional intaglio printmaking techniques of soft ground, sugar-lift and spit-bite within my etchings.
I exhibit widely, recently in Bristol's RWA, in London at the RA Summer Show, RE Bankside and Woolwich Print Fair. My work can be found in both private and public collections both nationally and internationally.
My images are closely observed, the intent being to capture the offbeat and inconspicuous. They're mostly about light, and the way it can change the atmosphere, embrace and enhance a subject, or just fleetingly bestow a place, an object, or a person with an intriguing nobility. Inspiring the viewer to examine the world more carefully and discover beauty in unusual places, particularly the everyday and commonplace, is my aim.
At last year's Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair I won the Boodle Hatfield Award, my prize being a sponsored Solo Showcase at this year's fair. In response to this I have produced a new large scale etching, almost 3 meters in length worked over 5 zinc plates. This piece follows on, in theme, from one of the works that I exhibited this year in the Royal Academy Summer Show, continuing some current thoughts in my work about the brevity of life and lives, and the transiency of human relationships. It's a complex image, a narrative that moves from layers of blurred speed to almost static, alluding to the divergence between what is constant and what is not, details that we see and that we miss, what we imagine and the stories we create in the blur of life.