Prints
​Printmaking is the experimental umbrella expression I have embraced more than any other in this MAFA course. Surprisingly, it was the magic world of 3D printing that opened the door to this artistic discovery. My exploration began with an inspiring induction into collagraphs, leading me through lithography, frottage, mokolito, and aquatint, culminating in photo polymer gravure in November 2024. In early 2025, I discovered letterpress, and that has taken me down an entirely new and exciting rabbit hole!


Nautical view. Collagraph on voile.
Cruciform laminarias. Mark making on ink. Oil on newsprint.

An aquatint on hard ground from the essay White Shadows. Oil on Snowdon paper.

Braided thong weed abstract. Oil on Snowdon paper.


Seaweed negative print. Oil on tissue paper.

Dried seaweed negative mono-print. Oil on Snowdon paper.

Two-tone blue and burnt Sienna photo polymer gravure. Intaglio ink on Fabriano paper. Gestural mark making.
Two-tone photo polymer gravure in blue and burnt Sienna of a Laminaria Digitata on Fabriano paper with typeset title.

Intaglio photopolymer print with an offset relief frottage of dried Furbellows. Intaglio ink on black cartridge paper.

Intaglio photopolymer print of Laminaria digitata with an off-set relief frottage of dried Laminaria. Intaglio ink on black cartridge paper.

Photopolymer gravure of Egg wrack in Charbonnel burnt Sienna, on Hahnemuler paper.

A series of 4,so far, of photopolymer gravures in Charbonnel black and Intaglio Prussian blue, on Awagami paper

A new experiment: making my own paper with added seaweed, then wetting it and processing it with photo polymer gravure of Irish moss in this image.