I work directly from the landscape in either lino or woodcut. Working
outdoors enables me to capture the line and fluidity of scenes and
localities.
My landscapes are landscapes of self-possession and movement. Through
their layered and textured forms they express the tectonic flow
of the earth, as mountains and valleys rise and fall in an experience
of time much more immense than our own.
I spend time in the places my work depicts, returning to them. From
the Sussex Downs to the foothills of the Himalayas, my prints are
imbued with the emotion of place. Each one of my pieces is given
individual life though colour and chine colle (paper overlay) or
hand tinting, just as the mood of a scene shifts with light, time
and experience.
My work takes shape in the place between landscape and dreamscape.
Whether in architectural or animal forms, it connects the experiential
world to the imagination, the material to the emotional.
Our thoughts and feelings colour the things we encounter, and they
in turn colour us. In my prints I give visual expression to this
conversation.
Contact me at the studio, Brighton independent printmaking: