It all started when…

I got my first taste of printing during my art foundation course, creating large abstract screen prints exploring the potential of overlapping and reconfiguring simple colours and shapes. This exploration continued throughout my degree where my practice focussed on exploring the relationships and tensions between form, function and decoration. Following many years working in education and raising a family, I now have a studio where I can continue to play and develop my practice as printmaker.

Using relief processes I investigate and play with the abstract relationships between colour, shape and line; I construct and de-construct the visual space through order, disorder, repetition and juxtaposition to find a visual balance and quietness within a defined space.

Alongside this abstract work, I’m also fascinated by the narratives and places hidden within the East Anglian landscape. Using planographic processes, this work focusses on the play between permanence and transience; it explores liminal spaces - ones which reveal hints of events, traces of identity, markers of time - posing questions and provoking conversations.