About the Artist

I trained in Drawing and Painting in Edinburgh College of art. I taught, painted and exhibited in Scotland before coming to live in Dublin in 1998 where I continued working and through collaboration with the Five Lamps Arts Festival had a solo show entitled Sidetracked, an exhibition of drawings, painting and prints. Since joining Graphic Studio Dublin I have been concentrating on printmaking.

Artist statement

My work is based on drawing from life. I am interested in the relationship between the natural and manmade environment, in how human presence and habitation has changed and moulded the landscape.

In order to translate my chosen images into print I have been learning some of the techniques required for printmaking. Experimenting with and combining etching with carborundum, collograph and collage has been my main focus in recent years.

My prints are both representational and expressive. I seek to evoke mood, atmosphere and movement through line, pattern, shape and texture.