Wherever I go I take you with me

Travel and photography are two lifelong passions: I’ve always loved experiencing new places and found myself equally excited by the ability to capture my view of them on camera. More recently I’ve discovered another passion in printmaking, which enables me to bring the two together in a new, expressive and exciting way. By turning my travel photographs into screen prints, I’m transported back to places I’ve been, and often find a different viewpoint on them. Many of my screenprints use monotype, which allows me to experiment with colour to create unique pictures – and in a very small way recreates the excitement of seeing somewhere new for the very first time.

In this exhibition, I invite you to travel to some of the places I’ve visited in the last few years so you too can experience them, feel their atmosphere and, I hope, enjoy them as much as I did. As a relative newcomer to printmaking, I’m also on a bigger personal and artistic journey, discovering new techniques and new ways of expressing myself. It’s exciting. I’ve no idea where it will take me, but to paraphrase some wise person somewhere: sometimes the journey is as important as the destination. I’m happy just to go with the flow… and wherever I go I’ll take you with me, if you’d like to come along.