Prints
Revealing the unexpected is a major aspect of my practice when working in the etching workshop. Chance and accident are embraced and excite me. I like to work with Carborundum, a gritty sand like substance which is mixed with glue and painted on to areas of the plate. When dry, the area retains ink and gives a rich velvety colour and textured surface. I also use two further intaglio techniques, Drypoint, where I draw directly into the plate with a sharp tool resulting in mark making and variations in line detail and Etching, a printing process of making designs by the corrosive action of an acid. Combinations of these processes result in abstract, painterly, printed imagery.
Recent Work 2020
Recent Work 2018
In the Etching Workshop
Fractured
80cm x 60cm (unframed)
collograph
Psalm 61:2
70cm x 50cm (unframed)
collograph
Stoneye 1
45cm x 25cm (framed)
collograph
Red Bank
27cm x 25cm (unframed cut to edge of print)
collograph
Yellow Bank
27cm x 25cm (unframed cut to edge of print)
collograph
Paddy's Block
84cm x 84cm (framed)
etching
Starry Starry Night
87cm x 87cm (framed)
etching
Rockpool
60cm x 48cm (framed)
carborundum
After the Storm
94cm x 92cm (framed)
carborunum & collograph
Organism
54cm x 47cm (framed)
carborundum & drypoint
Stoneye 2
15cm x 15cm (unframed cut to edge of print)
carborundum
In the Shallow Water
37cm x 34cm (on mount board)
carborundum & collograph
Purple Tide
41cm x 35cm (on mount board)
carborundum & collograph
Pretty in Pink
29cm x 22cm (unframed)
Ink on rice paper
Warrior Deep
29cm x 22cm (unframed)
Ink on rice paper
Noir et Bleu
29cm x 22cm (unframed)
Ink on rice paper