Some evenings opposite my house an owl hoots throughout the night. No matter what time it is, before sunrise, he is still hooting. I’m listening and I’m there with him, in the tree, in his home.

You know this too. Pass by a series of rabbit holes along the bank that runs by the school and you’re there in those burrows, living there feeling the warn earth walls and long corridors.

This is the sentiment from which I work. From an experience of something I’ve somewhat forgotten but that as I draw I somehow try to find. The most important thing for me is to have a concentrated state as possible.   This allows me to draw and work happily and let the work inform me. With the animal series it was only ages after I’d made them that I realised that at their inception I was living in a very rural place where animals and birds were constantly fighting to get into my house.

I like etching because it’s all about drawing and there’s a lot of freedom with the process. I use photopolymer plates combined with copper plates, drawn, etched and aquatinted. Usually I use Fabrioano either Blanco or Rosalina, which is my favourite paper.