Work Print Series
Print Series
Work developed in series using print media. When I returned to Scotland in 1993 after living in Florence thanks to a John Kinross Scholarship from the Royal Scottish Academy I moved to Edinburgh and used Edinburgh Printmakers as my base. I began to develop new work using a variety of fine art printmaking methods. This felt like a very natural progression and I have continued to explore the possibilites of print media in my practice ever since.

The Bay Blueprints
I began the Bay Blueprints series in 2009 at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) where I was permitted access to photograph the plant material that is removed from the Garden in the course of...
Translations
Translations is a series of 23 prints based on the human genome. This series of small format prints was developed for exhibition in Taller Galeria Fort in Cadaques,Catalonia, Spain. It was then shown...
Yield
I began work on the Yield series in 2003 during a residency at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath. My initial work on this series was inspired in part by a stunning book of cyanotypes held in the Royal...
Anatomy of Absence
The Anatomy of Absence series evolved from a consideration of some of the methods of scientific enquiry I learnt whilst training as a biologist. Techniques used in comparative anatomy, such as...
Water of Leith
This series references the use of the blueprint to document the natural world, extending the analytical approach to include material discarded by our own species. It juxtaposes found man-made items...