Given my peripatetic background, I have a great interest in fragments and multiple perspectives – literally and figuratively – and time and loss. I love taking photographs that don’t have a conventional angle, leaving the viewer to ponder for an extra second or two about what they are seeing. An everyday scene turned oddly abstract. My love of photography has a perfect partner in photopolymer etching, where ‘making strange’ is taken a step further, and where no two prints are the same.

How did I get here? Via a long publishing career as a managing editor, and spells studying film, television and radio production. After publishing and I left each other, I decided to follow my passion for art. A fun morning on a linocut course at the Barbican changed everything – suddenly I was addicted to the smell of linseed oil, cast-iron presses, inks, Somerset paper and arcane tools and terms such as intaglio and relief … and the most wonderful printmaking community.

I made up for lost time with myriad workshops and courses at London Print Studio, East London Printmakers, City Lit and Morley College, where I still take part in an advanced printmaking workshop. I am also a member of the Printmakers Council, Southbank Printmakers, Kew Studio and ELP, and I have my own small studio at Worton Hall. Last year, I formed the collective CG.05 with fellow printmakers Shirley Hunter and Zoltan Marfy. We held our first exhibition ‘Still’ at Boo’s Closet, Notting Hill, in the summer of 2022.

2022 exhibitions Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Wells Art Contemporary, Southbank Printmakers Mini Print Competition, East London Printmakers Festival of Print, Summer Exhibition at Morley College (Chelsea), Artfusion Holy Art, Southbank Printmakers Winter Exhibition and Kew Studio Winter Exhibition.

2023 exhibitions Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Ironbridge Fine Arts Annual Open Exhibition, East London Printmakers Festival of Print, Kew Studio Winter Exhibition, International Original Print Exhibition, CG.05 at Boo's Closet, Paper Ink Pen Fair at Landmark Arts Centre and Glasgow Gallery of Photography.