A printmaker / painter with an M.A. in fine art printmaking. I am inspired by journeying and documenting scenes in nature. I use a camera like a sketchbook, to capture a moment in time, a certain light or a cloud formation, a sense of place. In the seascapes breakwaters depicted have a presence about them not dissimilar to standing stones, they bear evidence of years of erosion and lend a sense of rhythm to the coastlines. Snap shots are etched into metal to capture and narrate journeys. The process of etching, the corrosion of the metal, of the physical, these aspects are where my interests lie with etching rather than with the multiple image. The essence of the work remains throughout the bodies of work, that is the experience of a journey of some sort, a physical and visual exploration. The mixed media processes in the paintings have been developed to question the surface of the canvas or paper and intend to make the viewer reassess the initial impression.
