Elected Associate member of RE, 'Asemic Writing' and 'Gray' exhibited at Bankside Gallery RE Original Prints 2021
News 2021-2022
Royal Society of Painter Printmakers
Elected member of the Printmaker's Council
Asemic Writing exhibited at The Natural World online exhibition, winner of the Printmaker's Council Award
Two Interviews on Morley Radio talking about Japanese Woodcut and my art practice
Link: https://morleyradio.co.uk/programmes/morley-gallery-podcast-ep5/
Link: https://morleyradio.co.uk/programmes/morley-gallery-podcast-ep9/
The Arts Society
In July I became an accredited lecturer for The Arts Society.
Lumen Residency at St Johns, Bethnal Green
This was a site specific residency and exhibition in the crypt of the Sir John Soane grade I listed church of St John in Bethnal Green.The installation was inspired by the two women Elizabeth and Mary Jennery who are still buried in the crypt and who died in 1848. This was a period of great change in London when there was for the first time more people living in the city than the country and disease particularly tuberculosis was rife.
Wisteria funereal wreath
My local park has a wisteria tree planted in 1848 the year Elizabeth and Mary died. It is a symbol of long life in Japan.
Spine wreath
The bones of a tubercular spine, scarred and distorted forming a wreath.
Writ on Water
Writ on water was carved on the poet John Keats' tombstone.
Sumi ink on Kozo paper
River
A reduction Japanese Woodcut of light on water and shadows of an overhanging bank. Sumi ink and watercolour pigment on Hosho paper
Shadows
One of two experimental prints exploring natural forms.
Sumi ink and caligo ink on Shoji natural paper
Blinds
IA reduction Japanese woodcut showing light passing through blinds.
Sumi ink on folded Hosho paper
Mirror to Nature
A series of 12 digital images taken over the period of the residency of a discarded mirror on the street disintegrating day by day. Foucault called the uncanniness of mirrors heterotopia or a placeless place, simultaneously real, relating with the real space surrounding it, and unreal, creating a virtual image.
Printed on Awagami Kozo printer paper
Dialogue
A collaborative book made with Caroline Areskog Jones printed by Aldgate Press
Dappled Light
A series of reduction mokuhanga prints based on walks through the woods in summer.
Above Us
Only Sky
These prints are made up of ten layers of fine cutting called itabokashi. They are reduction prints with each layer building a subtle shade darker than the previous one. I wanted to experiment with soft graduations of tone to evoke light and shade, using woodcut.
Morley College Stab-bound book
Collaborative stab-bound book with my Advanced Japanese Woodcut students at Morley College. Prints were made using the traditional hanshita method of transferring brush line drawings onto woodblocks. Printed on Inbe paper with sumi ink.
International Mokuhanga Print Conference
I took part in the 4th International Mokuhanga Print Conference in Nara Japan. Unfortunately due to Covid restrictions most of the Conference was held online. It took place over three days, and three time zones worldwide, with participants from Australia, Finland, USA, Russia, UK, Italy and Japan. I presented my paper "Mokuhanga and the Sense of Touch" and had my prints represented in both the Open Portfolio and the Juried Exhibition in Japan.
