Welcome to my web site. I’m a Sussex-based artist, practicing relief printmaking techniques, and traditional painting.
Visual arts have been my lifelong passion; I studied academic drawing and painting, and worked on commissioned decorative fabric pieces as an apprentice with a batik studio and have an MA in Arts & Cultural Policy.
I started practicing linocut printmaking several years ago and it quickly became one of my favourite techniques. Linocut is a relief printmaking technique, where a surface of a linoleum block (plate) is carved, then hand inked and pressed onto paper to create a print. The printed image will be a mirror image of the carved plate, and the surface left uncut (positive space) will be the colour of the ink. Every time the paper is lifted, the magic happens, you can’t be quite sure how the colours will print and what the final piece will look like.
All my linocuts are my own original designs. I sketch them old school style in pencil and pen. Each print is then made entirely by hand and produced in limited numbers. For monochrome prints one lino block is carved. For colour prints I carve multiple blocks which then have a different ink applied to each block. This is a tricky process as each block has different parts of the image and they all have to align to give the final holistic image. So, even within the same edition, each print will have some slight variation due to how the ink is applied, making each piece a unique and original work.
The Sussex countryside, its rolling hills, ever-changing sky, and the white cliffs feature a lot in my art, but my inspiration can be a quirky town corner, a story, an object, a creature or a pattern. I’m quite influenced by the aesthetics of traditional Japanese wood block prints.
I make most of my art at home or use a shared space in a local art studio. I also run occasional weekend linocut and block printing workshops to which I welcome people curious to try the technique and to take home their own pieces of art.
I take part in local exhibitions, and specialist fairs. Recently my prints were selected for the Royal Society of Printmakers 'Small but Mighty' exhibition and Ironbridge International Printmaking Open.
I started practicing linocut printmaking several years ago and it quickly became one of my favourite techniques. Linocut is a relief printmaking technique, where a surface of a linoleum block (plate) is carved, then hand inked and pressed onto paper to create a print. The printed image will be a mirror image of the carved plate, and the surface left uncut (positive space) will be the colour of the ink. Every time the paper is lifted, the magic happens, you can’t be quite sure how the colours will print and what the final piece will look like.
All my linocuts are my own original designs. I sketch them old school style in pencil and pen. Each print is then made entirely by hand and produced in limited numbers. For monochrome prints one lino block is carved. For colour prints I carve multiple blocks which then have a different ink applied to each block. This is a tricky process as each block has different parts of the image and they all have to align to give the final holistic image. So, even within the same edition, each print will have some slight variation due to how the ink is applied, making each piece a unique and original work.
The Sussex countryside, its rolling hills, ever-changing sky, and the white cliffs feature a lot in my art, but my inspiration can be a quirky town corner, a story, an object, a creature or a pattern. I’m quite influenced by the aesthetics of traditional Japanese wood block prints.
I make most of my art at home or use a shared space in a local art studio. I also run occasional weekend linocut and block printing workshops to which I welcome people curious to try the technique and to take home their own pieces of art.
I take part in local exhibitions, and specialist fairs. Recently my prints were selected for the Royal Society of Printmakers 'Small but Mighty' exhibition and Ironbridge International Printmaking Open.