Prints & Postcards

I enjoy printing postcards most of all – they are ephemeral, there is no agony in design decisions - they can always be remade better, later; they are little outriders in the digital world. The larger prints are often book-related; they are extensions of the page or an exploration of ideas that will ultimately be resolved in a book.

Tu-plei 1 - Red

Made for Tu-plei 2021. Triptych in three primary colours; large letterpres/woodcut collages with texts about ‘play’ in response to Maria Stadnicka’s Buried Gods Metal Prophets.

Tu-plei 2 - Blue

Letterpress/woodcut collage. I wanted these to look like fragments cut from a huge wall of text and image.

At Eye Level triptych

Three letterpress collages made in/on type cases for the At Eye Level project

A Bookseller

Letterpress poster for Beau Beausoleil’s al-Mutanabbi Starts Here broadside project

Three 1

Large prints made from the wooden shapes used in the book 3 - see oversize section. Hand-burnished on Japanese paper. Phonetic texts to be read in threes.

Three 2

Lead-tongue, stone-cold, kiss.

Collected Postcards

I try and make a new postcard for every Fair/exhibition I do, Some of them I print only once, some that I enjoy I print again and again. Letterpress, woodcut, rubber-stamp, screenprint; whatever comes to hand.

Evidence

…you travelled to the most exotic places and bought back the everyday. Keepsakes and mementos; letterpress and screenprint.

Drugs Den

Letterpress poster made for the Glasgow Poster Wall project.

At Eye Level

Collected postcards; a boxed set of 28 postcards - I printed cards for Mark Mawer, Maria Stadnicka, John Stadnicki and myself. Letterpress, relief print, stencil, stamp and inkjet.

Cut/Heal

Four large prints; wooden type text cut successively into smaller fragments but still, perhaps, legible.

Three Words 5

A series of twelve autobiographical poems in three words - work still in progress, trying to match word- sense and colour

Three Words 7

Three-word poems.

Eight

Typographic installation at Farnham Maltings Art Centre, Surrey. One of 30 prints pasted into the interior of the building.

Lob

Cut and reassembled wooden letters; a series of prints.