It's summer 2010 and I've fallen in love with trees all over again - seems like a natural follow on from the cherries and growing things. Aborophilia is the gallery where you can see my first prints and some drawings I have been working on as prepapration for a new series.

Starting from either drawing or photos I work on the prints - using a variety of methods including etching, photo-etching, screen-print and linocuts. For etching, texture and shade are added to line work by using aquatint and/or sugar lift. All methods require a number of steps before even beginning to print. All require a combination of technical skill to ensure timings in the acid are correct and aesthetics to produce the required result.

I hope my prints will give people pleasure in looking at the image and the different marks and textures that are involved. So much time is spent on looking that each image seems to develop its own personality. This develops over the time spent creating the original artworks and then the plates to produce the prints. Each print is hand inked before passing through the press, the paper just the right dampness and the press just the right pressure.

I am currently studying for an MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at the University of the West of England, and am a member of Spike Print Studio in Bristol. If you are interested in finding out more about my work - you can use the contact form on this website or mobile 07963 094899.

Recent Exhibitions 2009-10

August There is beauty in the city - photographs in looped group slide show at Ezcurdia, 30_Bajo Gallery, Gijon, Spain

1 Aug - 30 Sept - Micro Art Project - Berkley Hotel, Berkley Square, Bristol.

1 July - 31 August Tourist Information Centre, Bristol Harbour, next to Watershed. Hidden Impact revisited + unframed work in browser.

9-16 July Centrespace Gallery  Group show

13 May - 20 May White wall University of the West of England.

3-15 May - Cotswold Craftsmen Gallery, Nailsworth, Glos. Group show.

May 1-3 Spike Open, Spike Island, Bristol, various peices in Spike Print Studio.

5-17 April. Beauty in the City. AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent as part of the gallery's Dialogue Box programme. Group photography show on theme beauty in the city..shown as continuous slide show.

2009

Nov 27-29 2009 North Bristol Arts Trail.

Sept 12 - 20 - HIDDEN IMPACT: Prints in the City group show - four small site specific etchings in public places round central Bristol - part of  IMPACT 6 - biannual international printmaking conference taking place in Bristol this year. Also prints in OPEN IMPACT, and exhibition of UK  print studios at Spike Island.