I am an Exeter based printmaker inspired by the big skies, estuaries and wetlands of the South West. My work endeavours to represent these fleeting and ephemeral landscapes using a medium usually associated with bold blocks of colour. I use reduction printing combined with mono print technique and various methods of ink thinning to achieve a lightness of touch that conveys a sense of calm and finish often described as ‘painterly’.
The creation of my prints is a painstaking, frustrating, frequently complicated and an occasionally unsuccessful exercise using a medium not entirely suited to rendering the ephemeral nature of my chosen subject matter! I should be a watercolourist but I love the combination of craft and fine art printmaking offers.
I am a member of Make Southwest
