Printmaking blog

I started the year with my first four Take Flight prints. The idea was to show birds flying (for the most part) in their environment. So a crow among rooftops, a magpie between fences, a cuckoo in oak trees and a blue tit amongst tree blossoms. Also I intended to screen print the colours and lino print the detail in black. These prints would feature abstract shapes behind the detail and colour fills behind the birds.

You may know I am a keen screenprinter and also a keen photographer. I like to use textures in my screenprints, either from monoprinting ink or fro...

Boats have featured in quite a few of my prints, like Seaside Garden and Rock Stack. Still, they have never been the main feature, so when my dad s...

After printing my series of three coastal path prints in 2020, I felt I had more I wanted to express in a print. Using a path as the focal point, I...

Following the series of coastal paths prints, I wanted to follow the theme but use it differently. From the things I print and talk about, you can ...

Following my post from quite a while ago about print for the hallway and stairs, I wanted to look at what you can do in your living room.

Over the past few years, I've been playing with ideas for coastal prints. Initially, I started by making assemblages of seaside flotsam, like bits ...

My quotation prints continue to develop, and with my latest going on sale earlier this year, I wanted to look at back at the current four and look...

While on holiday in St. Davids last year, I created a flurry of sketches to be used as new print ideas, including one called “Beach Findings”.  Th...

At the start of the year, I wanted to create prints that would potentially be formed of one colour only. Having created single colour screen print...

When I decided to do another series of animal prints, I came up with the idea of making them look like travel posters for animals, showing them...

I have long admired printmakers who use all available space in the print, but make it seem natural. I decided to make a couple of mono linocuts in...