About me
I fell in love with printmaking
I first discovered printmaking while studying for a Fine Art degree at Leeds University during the 90’s but returned to it over 20 years ago while attempting to find balance with my day job as an art and photography teacher in Hampshire. I wanted to get my hands inky again, so since then, I’ve worked with many different printing techniques, including lino, collagraph, etching and monoprint. My focus is now on screenprint and monoprint.
One of my biggest career highlights to date is getting one of my etchings into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and selling out the whole edition in the opening weekend. That and winning second prize for a drawing of my guinea pig at the school fayre when I was 7. I still have the picture tucked away!
Now, with a passion for printmaking and a deep-rooted love for colour, I help people who are drawn to abstract design make a statement in their homes with unique prints they won’t find anywhere else.
It's all about the colour
Today, I’m just as obsessed with colour as I’ve ever been. I produce my unique prints from high-quality materials, labouring over every tiny detail until they’re worked to perfection. The result is that each piece is finished with love, ready for you to enjoy and admire for years to come.
I’m also currently developing unique abstract circular screenprints. I create these pieces over several days in the print studio by overlapping layers of acrylic paint from screens exposed with expressive hand-made marks.
Alongside my originals, monoprints and screenprints, a selection of my prints are available as gallery-quality giclée prints in a range of sizes printed by a specialist Fine Art printing company in London. My print collections are a real labour of love, and I’m so pleased you’re here to enjoy them with me.
Feel free to get in touch or view the process gallery if you’d like to learn more about a particular piece or my techniques.
Back to where it began
Before starting my venture, I studied Fine Art at Leeds University then gained an MA in Fine Art Printmaking from Winchester School of Art. I now live in leafy Hampshire with my husband, two children and two cute – but demanding – guinea pigs. When I’m not printing, I love to walk by the coast and indulge in my guilty pleasure for American TV crime shows and detective novels.
Printmaking is a therapeutic process
I’ve always loved abstract art, but for many years I focused on more figurative and coastal-inspired themes. Sadly, my father’s diagnosis with dementia in 2017 proved something of a turning point for me, as I had to leave the teaching job I loved so much to manage his care. But through this difficult period, I found making time for my own printmaking practise to be incredibly therapeutic.
What evolved from this tough time were highly coloured abstract relief prints designed as imagined shelter spaces that are a testament to the uplifting and restorative power of colour. Building up compositions with layer upon layer of translucent ink at the etching press results in works of art that are both seemingly simple, yet convey complex colour relationships and a subtle surface texture.
A passion for sharing and teaching art
Following my career break, I was fortunate enough to land my dream job working part-time as a Technical Instructor in printmaking. Alongside this, I maintain my creative practice and run Love to Print – an art kits business I set up to share my love of print and teaching expertise with anyone who wants to start their own printing journey. (Psst, they make an excellent gift for people looking to reawaken their creative mojo.)