laser etched woodcut print on oiled paper, with linen thread 23 by 13 cm Edition number: n/a
With The Rising Tide
viscosity print on kozo paper 38 by 23 cm Edition number: n/a
At the Edge of Vastness
concertina book made from laser etched woodcut on Awagami hosho paper, with laser etched plywood covers 21 by 432 cm Date: 25 June, 2023
A Couple of Hours on a Wednesday in February at the South Coast with the Sunshine and a Rising Tide
laser etched woodcut print on Hahnemuhle Sumi-e paper, phase box made with Canaletto Velino paper, seaweed and shell 10 by 7 cm Date: 21 February, 2023
Last Walk With Dad
screen-printed phase box, clay fragment, photo transfer intaglio print on Awagami hosho paper 15 by 11 cm Date: 14 December, 2022
Nunhead Ivy
viscosity print 57 by 38 cm Edition number: V/E Date: 07 February, 2023
About the Artist
My work explores memory and emotions, using images of landscape – photographs from individual moments and places, often with specific people. I translate those images through different printmaking processes as a way of capturing and preserving memories and navigating and containing unruly emotions. Through traditional analogue processes, I seek to crystallise the fleeting and intangible into something tangible, tactile and lasting. I am particularly drawn to images of the surface of moving water, capturing its restless and relentless nature.
My work explores the traces we leave in the landscape and the memories, experiences and objects that we take with us. I use the idea of transitional objects to create tiny things which evoke or encapsulate something much larger; and describe intimate, personal emotions that also have universal salience. Working mostly in printmaking, but with elements of painting, sculpture and book arts, I use images of landscape which skirt the traditional notion of landscape art, focusing on what is underfoot or unseen instead of the scenic ‘sublime’. These images tend to be textural and somewhat ambiguous, though for me there is a strong and specific meaning or memory associated with each one, with the intention that they will elicit the viewer’s own experiences of landscape.
Materiality and the haptic are important aspects of my work, with an emphasis on traditional materials that invite handling and manipulation.
