Over many years, as both artist and teacher, I have explored the properties of a broad range of 2 and 3 dimensional media.  Repeatedly I come back to the fundamentals of painting and drawing. On leaving teaching 10 years ago I stepped back from a long standing theme of traditional landscape.  My work has become more involved in creating another view of the world which is outside of time, hovering in the realms of dream and memory.  Through this I have evolved a range of techniques that play with the persistent and transient elements of our surroundings - frequently involving stencilling.  This has led to a curiousity about the potential for other forms of printmaking, used for their ‘one-off’ qualities rather than a repeating process, as part of the mix. I want to explore the overlap between painting and printing techniques.  By printing onto paintings and painting onto prints I hope to exploit the qualities of each and create works that are as ambiguous in process as they are in form. The nature of the outcomes is impossible to predict since there will be a continual dialogue between my studio work and that done in the college as each affects the other. 

In the college I want to use the theme of ‘Performance’.  I want to use images gathered from dance, drama and music classes as source material for paintings, drawings, prints and maybe 3D work.  We’ll see…