EXHIBITIONS - “Passions of the Cut Sleeve” “City Nightfall” “Disappearing Reef”

When I was twenty-one, my Mum, an art and music teacher, gave me a book on printmaking, saying that she thought the way I liked to draw would be ideal for printmaking. It wasn’t until many years later, sadly after Mum had passed away, whilst unpacking boxes of books after a house move, I came across the book again and thus began a love affair with printmaking. Mum was right!

Someone once said that printmaking is 90% process and 10% inspiration… well maybe not completely!… but the process part of printmaking definitely appeals to the analytical side of my brain.

I work mainly in a printmaking technique called collagraph but I have begun study in Japanese woodblock. I’m fascinated by shape, patterns, graphical forms and line. As a collagraph printmaker I am constantly amazed by the unexpected ways that random materials hold and transmit ink, coming together to form images.

I have no formal creative qualifications, but undertook many years of printmaking courses at both the Pine Street Creative Art Centre and the National Art School. 

In my art practice, I seek to examine philosophical, socio-political and ecological themes through graphical stories. 

Like chanting, mantra and singing, my printmaking practice is an important part of maintaining well-being and balance in my life.