Photo polymer gravures
Transforming my photos into a print through a printed 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

Photo gravure and dried seaweed frottage on black Fabriano paper.


Furbellows in Prussian blue.

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.

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.