I think ink runs through my veins. For as long as I can remember I have enjoyed the process of printing in one form or another – be it potato printing, commercial printing and graphic design, or hand-printing printmaking my own artwork.

I spent 30 years working in graphic design, advertising and marketing. One of my favourite things to do during that time was the press checks for new print material. The sound of the machines clicking and clacking as they worked. The smell of ink on the presses. The vibration through the floor as the machines added life to blank papers.

Introduce the digital revolution, and the volume of printed material has reduced significantly. I built my own business in web development and marketing, successfully running that for nearly 15 years. But I missed print!

I love print. And I yearned for a slower and hands-on approach to printing. Throughout my commercial career I dipped by toe back into the world of printmaking fine art, but never really afforded myself the time to focus on it, and develop my skills.

I moved to Maleny from Brisbane in 2009, and there began the realisation of a dream and two of my passions – printmaking and teaching.

I am a printmaker. I love printmaking. In all its inky, painterly and organic forms.

My strongest area is reduction linocut printing – where I can spend weeks working on a piece, carving and printing and carving and printing to the final hand printed artwork. But I love to explore and work with a wide range or different printmaking media – monoprinting, etching, cyanotype. And recently spending time with letterpress, printmaking on clay, mokohanga, screenprinting and eco-printing.

There is simply not enough time to do it all … but I’ll give it a good try!

Viva la print 🙂