Artist's Statement
My work is inspired by the fragile natural imagery of the East Coast, and illustrated through the many mediums of printmaking.Through degree specialist training and experimentation I extend my printmaking skills to include 3D, in plaster, paper pulp, resin and clay – in order to reflect my love of the sea and landscape and illustrating my concern for the fast-disappearing shoreline environment.
As a fine art printmaker, my first love is etching. I have developed an innovative technique of printing from etching plates onto plaster, enabling me to work on plaster and ceramic sheets which can then be manipulated to create 3D forms representing the ebb and flow of the fragile shifting Suffolk coast, incorporating beach debris to form a constellation in memory of a vanishing environment.
My interests include study into contemporary art and the relationship as artist / printmaker, practitioner, entrepreneur and teacher, procedures that encompass all of the above, and serve to strengthen my individual practice.
Other works include etching prints on plaster blocks and 3D sculptural works of a similar nature, screen prints and collagraph prints all of which reflect the many changing facets of the Easterly shoreline.
