I became involved with both lithography when I received a Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust bursary to study for a short tme at the Curwen in Cambridge in 2005. I love the alchemy of the process and the balance of force, pressure and resistance with the delicacy of water, grease and drawing. I work on stone. The moment of washing out a drawing before inking up still takes my breath away and when the inky image returns, it is pure joy.

I also worked with lithography at AGA in Amsterdam in the winter of 2007.

At Falmouth during my MA I was thinking a lot about old fashioned children's stories, and the single plate illustrations and engravings that accompanied them. I did not want to make sequential narrative work. I chose to make instead a portfolio of prints suggestive of the atmosphere and memories of a child told these stories at bed time, when shadows loom, lights are low and the illusion of daily reality weakens. Some prints I made were inpsired by stories, some by bedroom toys and artefacts.

This is a theme I continue to work with and add to.