Biography

I start outdoors, mainly on the beach, collecting, watching and wondering.  I gather chalk, charcoal, brick and rusted metal to grind into pigment.  I sketch, photograph and do rubbings of traces of movements, processes and surfaces-  the twisting rills of seawater returning to ocean, dendritic stains of rain runs down chalk cliff face, the flint form traces of burrows left by ancient creatures.

Back home, I set up collaborations with printing plate, acids and resists, both choreographing and allowing materials to behave in unpredictable ways. I introduce homemade resists, acids, solvents and obstacles, all the while  keeping in mind the processes I started to investigate on the beach. I direct and divert flows and twist to change direction, dimension and hold time.

Once movement and reaction is registered on the plate, I ink up, wipe then passed it through a rolling press to transfer the traces into a receptive paper, rubbing get used as as chine-colle and beach gathered materials made into watercolours tint.

I aim to join a dialogue about the vital nature of the world, a space and time to feel the formative processes surging through everything all the time.

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.