About my work

My work is rooted in close observation—of landscapes, atmospheres, and the ephemeral movements of light and shadow. I am particularly drawn to the quiet drama of weather and the ways in which light reveals and reshapes form. Having grown up near Dartmoor, I spent countless hours watching shifting skies and rain drifting across the moor, where the landscape is never still and time is written in fleeting glimmers and dissolving edges.

As a printmaker working primarily with woodblock and linocut, I draw inspiration from both Japanese printmaking aesthetics and contemporary approaches to layered image-making. I’m fascinated by the temporality inherent in these techniques: the slow, deliberate carving of a block; the unpredictability of ink; and the way translucent layers interact to build atmosphere. Through this process, I explore the tension between control and chance, creating images that evolve mark by mark.

Recently, my work has focused on the arrangement of pattern, shape, and light in the landscape as a way of recording time and space. This has led to an increasing abstraction in some pieces, as I seek to express not just what is seen, but what is felt—the atmosphere of a moment, the balance of permanence and impermanence. An artist residency in Margate in April 2025 gave me the opportunity to explore these ideas tracking the movement of light and shadow within a house setting - and inspired by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's book In Praise of Shadows.

Printmaking has become a means for me to engage deeply with material, place, and process. It allows me to hold onto moments of transformation—those small meteorological shifts or subtle changes in tone that can speak volumes about a place. Whether capturing the vastness of a sky or the intimacy of a shadow, my work is a meditation on the fragile, forceful, and ever-changing nature of the world around us.