At its best, the creative process is one of mystery: a relinquishing of control, followed by revelation and learning, usually involving a degree of destruction and re-construction.

Whether I’m out on a walk or raking through scavenged materials and the hoarded residues of past experiments, there is usually something brewing somewhere in the back of my head. It can begin with handling something as seemingly unremarkable as folded paper or knotted yarn.

The making of a print happens much further down the line.

To create detailed, controlled images a stencil is made by coating the screen with a light sensitive emulsion which is hardened by exposure to UV light. Alternatively paper stencils might be hand cut for more spontaneous work and trial pieces. In some work I have abandoned the stencil, taking a less orthodox, and less predictable, approach to applying ink to the surface I’m working on.

Each colour layer in a print is produced separately. Where two colours are overlayed, depending on the translucency of the inks used, a third colour may be produced.

The screen printing process can be laboured or spontaneous and the variety of approaches to it can result in very different outputs : sharply defined geometric or biomorphic shapes sitting on the surface, bold graphic design, colourful overlays creating depth, textural drawn images or illusory photographic images. What they have in common is the uniquely smooth surface so characteristic of a screen print.

The works shown on this website are all hand-printed with archival quality inks on fine art papers. I also make prints on wood, textile and acrylic.