Me

I am a London-based printmaker and psychotherapist. As both artist and therapist, I’m interested in the constructs, patterns and structures that are both around and within us, reflecting and shaping us. My images are metaphors for the contradictions, complexity and fragility of human thought and emotions: light and dark; paradox and illusion; reflection and shadow. With my use of double plates, collage, chine collé, or fragments from other plates, I create images with new meaning, mirroring perhaps our fragmentary, multi-layered lived experience.

My work

It starts with a photograph. I take an image and manipulate it in a way that interests me. Depending on the effect I'm trying to achieve, I use copper, zinc, steel or polymer plates coated with light-sensitive material onto which I expose the image.

The plate is aquatinted - coated with a powdered rosin - and then etched in an acid bath.
The image can be changed by lightening, scraping, or polishing sections of the plate itself, until it is finally ready to ink up. Different coloured ink combinations, textured or coloured papers, or superimposed images from two or more plates, complete the transformation of the original photograph.

Finally, each print is individually run through the press by hand. Editions are limited and every print is numbered and signed.