I am a fine artist and printmaker specialising in hand-inked intaglio etchings.

I have worked in various mediums in the past but always gravitate back to intaglio etchings.

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My subjects range from woman to landscape and everything in-between and beyond. 

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I etch on steel or zinc plates using various processes such as line etching, aquatint and sugar lift processes and develop the image further by mixing and painting with oil-based etching inks directly on to the plate (a la poupée) to create distinctive and unique prints. Starting from the original etched plate, each plate is individually coloured, this means that I create small editions of varied prints, where no print is the same. Each artwork print is unique.

 

My new work concentrates on the Scottish islands and my experiences of travelling around them and being immersed in their landscape, focussing in on particular sections or moments in the landscapes, like film stills from my journey; the edge of a cliff, the detail of a boulder or rock formation, these fragments form together to make my landscapes.

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All my work is centred on journeys. I spent time exploring the Scottish Islands, immersing myself, working and staying in bothies on the islands as well as wild camping alone in the landscape. All my etchings have evolved from my sketches and ink/watercolour drawings made in situ, which I then take back to the studio to work from.

 

The etching process itself is like a journey, from drawing the first line, to pulling the plate through the press and the finished print. I’m never quite sure where the line will take me, much like my wanders through the landscape from island to island. Each individual etching in a varied edition travels me back to the instance of sketching on that windswept beach or cliff edge, the colours and emotions of that one particular moment.

 

The print is formed in the first person, in that first moment, not extracted from a still photograph but evolves and shifts, from the first step of the walk on that day, to the changing elements and rain drops on the page, these are all things that come together as I work on the plate in the studio.

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