I make prints on paper and porcelain, and also use ceramics and other materials to make creatures that sometimes appear in my prints. Often a work in one medium or technique will generate ideas for further projects in another. While much of my practice is process led, my images almost invariably are derived from my drawings, in zoos, natural history collections and in urban and rural surroundings. While drawing in museums, I have become intrigued by the ways in which specimens are displayed in museums, in particular the strange, sometimes incongruous reflections, that can appear in the glass panes of display cases. This is a subject I return to frequently in my prints.

Most of my printmaking practice involves alternative forms of lithography: mokulito (using a wooden plate as a matrix instead of the traditional wood or metal, for more information see my page What is mokulito?); waterless lithography; prontoplate lithography; gum transfer; and kitchen and lemon-etch litho. Often I combine more than one technique in a single print. I make my plates and print small prints in my studio near London Fields. I print larger work at East London Printmakers in Mile End, where I am a keyholder and tutor.

A few years ago I started working with ceramics and now make various kinds of prints on porcelain as well as three-dimensional objects.

I have a BFA from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and also an MA in Sequential Design from the University of Brighton. I grew up in London, more recently spent 10 years living in Norway, and now live in East London in Hackney. When I am not in the studio, I am most likely translating Norwegian into English for Norwegian museums and galleries or playing the bassoon in Fulham Symphony Orchestra in west London.

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