I’m a printmaker illustrator based in Shoreham-by-Sea near Brighton, Sussex where for the past thirty years much of my work has been about the natural environment, history and community.

 

I trained in design and illustration at Canterbury College of Art and Brighton University and have undertaken a wide range of commissions from cover designs, posters, greeting cards, jigsaw puzzles and educational materials, to large scale murals, banners, maps and way-finding monoliths. Ive also enjoyed working as a visualiser, teaching visual communication and running printmaking workshops for various levels. 

 

Drawing is always a starting point to my work as it helps me to really study and understand different subjects and the world around me. So you’ll often see me out and about with my sketchbooks and ink pens.

 

My interest in printmaking started a very long time ago as a child in awe of the Polish wood engraved cards sent to our family each year. As a foundation art student I discovered print rooms were really exciting places to work in, to develop ideas and experiment and later went on to produce my own wood engravings, etchings, lithographs, mono, relief and screen prints. I am now mostly known for linocuts linked to local subjects. My small studio at home has a large Bewick & Wilson etching press and blue boy relief printing press but I’ve also used the local open access studios at BIP and Inkspot to print some larger work. More recently my work has branched into painting and painterly prints. 

 

I am a member of Adur Art Collective and exhibit prints & paintings locally throughout the year. I also work on personal commissions and community based projects.