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I use print making as a particular broad form of visual art practice. Using both traditional and digital technologies my work often strays from edition printmaking. I am more interested in using print to construct independent and singular works through collage and combined printmaking processes printing on various materials and found objects. Hence the works cross over the bounds of sculpture and painting—but use the qualities of differing printmaking processes as the major form of expression.

My interests cover a small knowledge of Medieval relief sculpture and print ,the carnivalesque sense of the contemporary world and a growing fear of modern biological science. Much of this is reactive, emotional rather than a clear rational thought out position. It is rooted in the art of caricature particularly the prints of Hogarth, Gilary, Goya, Rowlandson, Ensor, Dix And Beckmann.

1974 -1978 Brighton University—BA hons Fine Art and Specialist Printmaking
1978-1981 Royal College of Art—MA printmaking
1995 - Elected RE Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter/ Printmakers
2000---con. Elected Vice –Chair Printmakers Council

Taught and conducted printmaking workshops in Africa and Europe for the British Council
On the Council of both the Printmakers council and the Re.

Writer on Cartoons and Printmaking—Co author on forth coming book—Extended Printmaking for A&C Blacks 2007 and ten papers on graphic humour for the Ankara International Cartoon Festival 1-10, Pieces on printmaking in PrintMaking Today from 1994,four papers for Impact conferences on print and the new digital means plus third world print and illness in Bristol, Finland, South Africa, Germany and Poland.

Winner 1st prize at the First International Humour Contest 2005 China, Special Award Bird 05,Highly Commended 2006 British Mini Print, Bronze Medal at the 5th International Cartoon contest, Haifa

Shown widely in Europe and the rest of the World ---last one person show in Dresden 2004 and selected for MAPPS as part of the British group of innovative Printmakers.

show starting in Canada, then touring to China, Korea, Japan and USA in 2006-2007