About

I was fortunate always to be encouraged to be creative. During the 1980s, I painted in watercolours and for a time produced wood engravings. I now concentrate on lino prints.

The process of making the prints begins with the observation of a place or a situation, which is usually sketched on the spot. This is then developed into a working drawing, which is then reversed and drawn onto a piece of lino.

For black and white prints, the image is produced by removing parts of the lino using either a v or a u shape cutting tool. The removed areas appear white on the final print. Textures can be produced by varying the width and the distance apart of the cuts. These are usually produced in editions of twenty. Each print is done by hand which means that no two prints are exactly the same.

I also produce coloured prints, usually by the ‘reduction method’ where a colour is printed from the lino then parts of the lino are cut away and a second or third colour is printed over the original colour. The colour prints are usually produced in editions of ten.

I usually use Japenese Shoji paper. This is high quality and very strong. It also picks up printing ink very well. I always use oil based inks. Occasionally, I will print in black and white on the Zerkall paper, which is excellent for hand colour prints, using watercolours.