Blog posts

New installation?
Since completing the AA2A residency, I've continued to print from the plates produced in the University of Hertfordshire print room. The juxtaposition of warm and cool colours has led to what could be an interesting installation if the prints were pinned to the wall in the arrangement below, or laid flat in a display case or on the floor. I'm also...  show more
Developing work after AA2A
Since completing the AA2A residency at the University of Hertfordshire, I've been lucky enough to continue developing my etchings at Slaughterhaus Print Studio in London. I'd noticed that my work had become particularly monochromatic over the last couple of years and wanted to explore the impact of colour on prints made from my recent plates. By printing multiple times on...  show more
A change in direction
So far I've been using the AA2A residency to work on creating a sequence of prints exploring a transition from presence to absence through gradual darkening of overlapping marks.  Having created three small sequence which I'm proud of I decided to try upping the scale of the etching plates I'm working on and began working into a 28 x 48...  show more
Work in progress
A sneak peak into my current work in the print room.      show more
Experimenting with found materials
My first day as an AA2A Artist in Residence was spent experimenting with using found natural objects as drawing materials. I'd brought with me a selection of objects including: two feathers, an acorn shell, a washed up bone from the River Thames, a twig and some sea glass. Once I'd filed my three zinc plates, degreased them and prepared two...  show more