Harbour Shapes

With a background in ceramics and an MA in Multi-disciplinary Printmaking from UWE, Bristol, my love of surface texture is apparent in my work. Inspired by my surroundings of the Tamar estuary and Rame Peninsula in Cornwall, I create paintings and collagraph prints using strong colour, structural shapes and surface detail as a direct response to my environment of boatyards, docks and harbours. 

I try to reflect these influences using a variety of materials including oil paint, mixed with cold wax medium, and collagraph printmaking, both of which are excellent methods for producing the surface detail that I love. Each of my prints, although taken from one master plate, are inked up in an individual way which makes them unique, though part of an edition.

Abstracted shapes of boats in a harbour.

Recipient of the English Riviera Summer Open Exhibition 2024 // Contemporary Practice Award

Acrylic on Board

33.5x33.5cm

Framed in a dark grey wooden tray frame