About Me
 

I create artwork, including linoprints, inspired by the everyday world around me, drawing on rural life, wildlife, village scenes, and the riverside. Sketchbooks from holidays by the coast have long shaped my work, with boats, seabirds, and shoreline sketches informing many of my prints. Now based in Scarborough, I continue to explore the rich visual energy of the coastline, developing my work and being inspired by distinctive coastal and marine themes through my printmaking. 

I have been making linoprints for over ten years and most of my work is hand pulled on my small etching press. Linoprints are original works of art, created by cutting a plate, made from linoleum. Each work has unique qualities and prints in a single edition may vary slightly, as each one is printed individually. Some of my prints are original reduction prints. A reduction print is cut or ‘reduced’ for each layer of ink, using two, three or more colours to make the image. Once the plate has been reduced in this way, there is no turning back and if mistakes are made you may have to start again with a new plate.