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March 2026

Photo by Claire Riley

I was honoured that my screen print Coverage was awarded First Prize at the RBSA Print Prize show in Birmingham, especially in such an impressive exhibition. The show, in a beautiful gallery in the jewellery quarter of Birmingham, continues until March 28th. A print from the same edition is then off to Presteigne for the Sidney Nolan Trust Open in July. My prints which were selected for the Flourish Award show last year are also travelling the country, and are currently showing at Leicester Print Workshop and then will be at Northern Print in Newcastle in May..

Meanwhile I'm continuing my experiments with modelling in newspaper as a stage in developing my compositions and prints and have been enjoying using newsprint for chine collé with photopolymer etching.

July 2025

I was delighted to be shortlisted with thirteen other artists, for the Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking. Three of my recent prints, including two which combine photopolymer and screenprint, will be on show in Huddersfield this July at the West Yorkshire Print Workshop, and then the exhibition will be on tour until July 2026.

In September I'll be showing new work with LOOP:Artists in Print at Bankside Gallery again, including a new 8-colour screenprint, Coverage, which began life as a model made with newspaper. Following that, some of my intaglio prints, including Displacement, have been selected by Tabish Khan of the Londonist for the Small But Mighty show, also at Bankside.

April 2025

Printmaking Today magazine commissioned a feature about my work from Gill Saunders, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the V&A. Gill interviewed me at Volcanic Editions last year, and a four-page spread appeared in the winter edition, Issue 132. Many thanks Gill, and to Printmaking Today!

In April ten of us from LOOP exhibited together at BSMT Gallery in Dalston. It was a great show and good to reach new audiences. Meanwhile I've been pursuing my interest in cruise ships and their environmental impact, and again enjoying constructing elements of my print imagery in 3D. Illustrated here is my print in the making, Ocean Dialogues, named after a section of the Paris Agreement from which the US has withdrawn its support.

October 2024

It was LOOP time again in September and another extraordinary exhibition at Bankside Gallery, with thirty-two of us revealing new prints and an exciting programme of artists working in the gallery throughout the show. It was good to air my new mixed media print Pushback, a further "state of the nation" piece, with its commentary on our punitive immigration system. And on a similar theme, I'm pleased to have my print, Processing 2, on show at Ironbridge Fine Arts, home of Gunning printing presses. I'm currently exploring the phenomenon of cruise ship tourism, and its connections with the fossil fuel industry, and planning to combine screenprinting with etching again.

June 2024

I've been developing new work over the last few months and spending time at Volcanic Editions, grappling with the frustrations and joys of combining etching and screen printing. Meanwhile new photopolymer etchings and monoprints have been selected and shown with the Printmakers Council at the Barbican Library, and at Bankside Gallery. Some miniature prints have headed for the Miniprint Kazanlak show in Bulgaria and my screen print State of the Nation has escaped the country and is on show at "Momentum", International Print Triennial in Krakow until 21st July. I was delighted to have the work selected and to be able to show for the second time at this prestigious event and amongst such an exciting range of printmakers.

November 2023 - January 2024

The LOOP Artists in Print show at Bankside Gallery earlier in the autumn was impressive and it was great to be part of this annual event. It's a chance to share ideas with a lively and innovative bunch of printmakers and there's a real focus on engaging with visitors to the gallery, which I like. It was a success for me personally, and particularly because I sold the first in the edition of my new screen print, State of the Nation. Its delivery involved a lightning handover on Andover station, which added to the excitement.

I'm also honoured to have had my work bought for the V&A Print collection this year. Two of my screenprints, Exchange Control and This was Tomorrow have been selected. Soon they will be catalogued and available to be viewed and maybe one day they’ll feature in an exhibition in one of the V&A Museums.

Now it's back to the studio, but there's a chance to see some of my miniature prints in the Bankside Mini Picture exhibition, which runs from 8th December until 1st February.

May/June 2023

Two of my monoprints are getting an airing for first time at the Bankside Gallery in the RE Original Prints 2023, opening next week. Such a lovely gallery, and a great place to start if you are building up a print collection.

I've made some miniature photopolymer etchings based on images from some memorable trips on rail replacement buses in last couple of years. Detour 1 and Detour 3 were both selected for the 14th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut. Exhibition runs from 4th June (opening event 2-4pm) until 20th August, and then travels on to Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT at the end of the year.

Anyone heading for Portugal and some wine tasting? I was delighted to accept an invitation to take part in the 11th International Biennial of Douro 2023, and two of my screen prints will be part of an exhibition across several galleries in centres in the Douro Valley, from 10th August to 31st October.

At last, I've finished a new and very complex screen print on the "state of the nation" theme. Just mulling over some possible titles, and looking forward to showing it for the first time at the LOOP 23:Artists in Print exhibition later in the year, as well as seeing new work from other members of this talented and diverse group of experimental printmakers.

March/April 2023

This year I'm very pleased to have prints on show with the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, at the London Original Print Fair in Somerset House. Looking forward to a weekend of print expertise and enthusiasm, and even to a bit of razmataz (30 March – 2 April). I'm hoping my screen print Abode will get an airing. And on a smaller scale, I have some of my Fuel Cost monoprints in the gallery of Ottowa School of Art at the 9th International Miniature Print Exhibition (30 March – 14 May).

January/February 2023

Pleased to be taking part in the Printmakers Council exhibition Thinking for Printing at Bankside Gallery from 31st January to 5th February. I’m showing Worldly Goods, one of my recent monoprints, and some of my sketchbook pages.