Biography

My work starts mainly on the beach, especially those of the Kent coast. I spend time beach-combing, swimming, watching and wondering about how things are.  I gather chalk and charcoal for drawing, sea washed brick and rusted metal to grind into pigment, drift wood for tools and fossils for my collection. Through frottage I record my touching rocks. I sketch and photograph traces around me-  the twisting rills left as seawater returns to the sea, dendritic soil stains of rain runs down the chalk cliff face, the incredible flint forms that are traces of burrows left by ancient creatures and the stages of growth of the liminal zone plants.

Back home, with these collected materials and impressions, I set up collaborations on a printing plate, both choreographing and allowing materials to behave in unpredictable ways. I create flows, add obstacles, use gravity and suction, twists to create changes in direction, introduce homemade resists, acids and solvents,  constrict and open pathways while keeping in mind all the time the processes I started to investigate on the beach. 

Once an impression is captured on the plate, it is inked up and wiped then passed through a rolling press under great pressure, transferring its trace onto a receptive paper. Sometimes I  use a beach rubbing as chine colle and tint with watercolours made from my beach gathered materials.

In my work I aim to join a dialogue about the vital nature of the world we inhabit by making prints, which as material presences, allow time to feel and take a deeper look at the dynamic formative processes surging through us and everything all the time, but of which we are often unaware.

I gained a post graduate Diploma Theatre Design at Croydon College, an MA. Middlesex University (CASCAD) in Computing in Art and Design and have experimented with a range of print making processes in courses at  The Art Academy, Morley College, City Lit and East London Printmakers.

I have worked as Prop-maker, Breakdown Artist, 3d Animator and Visiting Lecturer at UAL Camberwell.

My work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Linden Hall Gallery, Oxo Tower Gallery and the Horsebridge Whitstable. I am a member of the Printmakers Council and Associate Member of East London Printmakers.