Screen prints

I am currently exploring expressing subject matter through colour

and shape, composition and space. Coming from The Black Country,

with its tradition of making with your 'onds' (hands) and a strong sense

of place, I am playing with sense of place or feeling.

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The freedom of printing one off pieces is surprisingly liberating,

often directly responding to having drawn outdoors, in all weathers,

then returning to the studio and working with immedicacy.

This process creates its own rhythm -

slow obervation, fast drawing, slow cutting, fast printing.

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I am also trialling ways of screen printing without reliance on dark room

chemical processes which has lead me to making temporary stencils for

screens, and discovered the possibilities of woodcut printing, an exciting development after many years screen printing. I am experimenting with hybrid printing, seeing how the interaction of screen marks and woodcut marks interplay with each other. At this stage, messy and imperfect, as all play should be, going back to simple brush marks and contours. Follow me as I push myself to go to new creative places and discovering where it takes me next.