Ex Libris: a commission

Ex Libris: a commission

A very personal commission It’s not very often that an opportunity comes along to create something unique and personal in printmaking. Relief prints, by their nature, can be printed repeatedly from a single block, and are therefore usually made in editions of (nearly)...
For the Love of the Toon

For the Love of the Toon

Howay the Lads Howay the Lads is a print unlike any other I’ve made. It’s important to me that, far from being an accurate representation of a place or an event, it represents a feeling, a noise, a surging of excitement, a passion. It depicts that moment before the...
Greymare: the life story of a print

Greymare: the life story of a print

From pen to ink On a windy day in February 2023, I set out armed with a flask of soup, some fingerless gloves and my sketchbook, to the village of Craster on the Northumberland coast. From there it was a short walk along the grassy coastline to Dunstanburgh castle....