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My studio is now down in Cornwall near Penzance. I'm walking the dogs on Lelant beach everyday and always finding little bits of inspiration, see my instagram for my photos. I've been wanting to print shells and working out how in my head so here's my first attempt. A fab collection of different sizes, colours and patterns, how best to capture each one? With a plan, the first thing is to print the base colours and block shapes, cutting out the areas i want to keep white. mixing the colours is the next job ready to print, I didn't have...

All those gorgeous Autumn leaf colours make the perfect inspiration to play with reduction cutting. I'm running a small, 4 places only workshop on the 23rd November. Don't worry if you've had a go before or not, that's why it's a small class so you can have lots of attention.

I’ve got one of my prints 'Harbour Reflections' in Bristol, at the 167 Annual Open Exhibition at Royal West of England Academy. They've put the whole exhibition up on line, if you'd like to have a look it's here  https://shop.rwa.org.uk/collections/shop or find out more about the exhibition by clicking here: http://bit.ly/2LM3QL0

During the Secret Severn Art Trail I set myself the challenge of producing a linocut print to help visitors appreciate all the work that goes into a finished reduction cut print. I sat outside Smith York Fine Art Gallery at Fusion and cut. It was great to meet people and talk about the process. I took my lino home in the evening and cut (always cutting), before printing the new layer each night. I print by hand and that in itself could take 2 and a half hours to print the 12 I was working on. I've been told it's...

The Ironbridge Art Trail - Secret Severn begins this Friday. 20th - 29th September. The main exhibition is at Footprints gallery, Fusion, Jackfield Tile Museum, TF8 7AP These two are on the wall at Footprints and downstairs in Fusion I'm artist in residence at Smith York Gallery with my Izzy collection and lots of other work. Open 10 - 5pm  for more info and the map of the art trail with all the venues click this link