photo polymer gravures

Transforming my photos into a print through an etched plate process has been my passion since I started it in November 2024. Somehow, there is more detail in the (generally) embossed image than I could see in the photo.

Sugar kelp photopolymer gravure printed in burnt Sienna

Furbellows in Prussian blue on Somerset satin. £175 unframed.

Photo gravure and dried seaweed frottage on black Fabriano paper.

Intaglio photopolymer print overlaid with an off-set relief frottage of dried laminaria digitata, with letter press printed poem 'Saltern Cove'. Including the transparency printing, there are 5 printing processes on this final piece. Intaglio ink on Hahnemuhler paper. (Sold)

This series comprises 4 pieces of photopolymer etching only. It is inspired by Tacita Dean's quote 'there will always be a residue" referencing her attempts to wipe her chalk drawings on board that always left a trace. In my work, this references the idea that whatever we do, good or bad, has effects on others, never more apt in relation to how we treat earth and our more-than-human neighbours.

There will always be a residue (1) An A3 version of the first element in this series. This series starts as a Foucauldian world within a world concept and encompasses the Tacita Dean wisdom that we always leave a residue of what we do. A2 intaglio ink on Somerset satin. £125 unframed.

A furbellows image in two-tone intaglio ink on Fabriano rosaspina paper. A3 £175 unframed.

Dried laminaria digitata photopolymer gravure in 3 tones on Fabriano rosaspina paper. A3 £175 unframed.