Statement
I studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College in London and recently completed a Masters degree, with distinction, in Printmaking at the University of the West of England in Bristol.
Everyday we encounter printed images of idyllic and interesting locations. They tell us we should go there and that experiencing these places will enrich our lives.
These images are not only unreal depictions; air brushed cities, colour manipulated seas and skies or varnished fruits and flowers, that portray perfection, they are printed illusions. These glossy and full colour printed pages are created using a simple pattern of dots in four colours, cyan, magenta, yellow and black. My screenprints - developed from collages - are printed by hand using this four colour process, the method used to mass produce the printed matter that surrounds us and that provides my source material.
|
I have always been influenced by the pop artists for their use of found imagery, and screenprinting for its reference to commercialism. But more recently I have been looking at the work of early scenic wallpaper manufacturers (Zuber) and the Dutch painters (Jan Brueghel the Elder) who created fantastical, utopian scenes, of unlikely gatherings of flora and fauna, brought together with no reference to authenticity or reality. When real destinations might be dirty, dangerous and difficult to negotiate, such idealised scenes will never disappoint or change.
I exhibit my work nationally.
Screenprints
All the screenprlnts are printed by hand, in editions of no more than twenty on archival paper.
|
