Looking at the landscape the eye receives many different patterns in the same instant. I try to feature the ones I find most striking in the linocuts, sometimes overlapping them to reflect my mingled perception.
Collaged landscape Lino cut on paper 2008 - Some elements of the landscape impress themselves on my mind more than others
'The Swallows are Back' (20cm x 30cm) 2008 It makes me happy to see the swallows have made a safe return ...
.... and I'm sad to see the last one leave in September (20cm x 30cm) 2008
Green landscape 2 (20cm x 30cm) 2008
Green landscape 1 (20cm x 30cm) 2008
While living in the countryside I dream of other places (20cm x 30cm) 2009
.... and other possibilities (20cm x 30cm) 2009
I dream of Spanish mountains that impose themselves on my backdoor landscape (20cm x 30cm) 2009
.... and I want to be in both places at the same time (20cm x 30cm) 2009
Scotland is over the border - and so is this viaduct. Linocut 20cm x 29cm) 2009
In the spring the curlew's melancholy cry contrasts with the lapwing's lively call. (20cm x 29cm) 2008
... they nestle in the fields while raising their young - Linocut (23cm x 30cm) 2008
'Curlew' Linocut on paper (20cm x 30cm) 2009 - I seem to be obsessed with the curlew having printed it in so many different ways
As the curlew is imprinted on the landscape of Northumberland it seems the landscape of Northumberland is imprinted on the curlew. Collaged linocut (35.5cm x 20cm) 2009
Walking by the river we occasionally disturb a heron - Linocut (20cm x 29cm) 2009
Rabbits and herons are common in Northumberland Linocut (40cm x 29.5 cm) 2008
I am captivated by ancient remains - this baby mammoth was preserved in the ice of Siberia for 40,000 years. She fell into a river and drowned, poor little thing. Collograph (15cm x 15cm) 2009
I was inspired by some images from cave paintings - Collograph and monoprint (26cm x 11cm) 2009
Collograph and monoprint (26cm x 11cm) 2009
Collograph and monoprint (26cm x 11cm) 2009
Maybe this is how we would depict them today ... Collograph and monoprint (26cm x 11cm) 2009
... or maybe some would see Michael Jackson as the 21st C. icon... Collograph and monoprint (26cm x 11cm) 2009
'Rock On' Collograph (19cm x 7cm) 2008
'Rock On II' Northumberland has rock art, otherwise known as 'cup and ring' marks carved into large limestone rocks - nobody really knows what they were for, but I love the designs - Collograph (19cm x 7cm) 2008
'Rock On III' Collograph (15cm x 15cm) 2008
'Rock On IV' Collograph (19cm x 13cm) 2008
This design was derived from a pulmonary artery image taken by a scanning elelctron microscope. It supports the cut-out pieces in my installation 'Up Close and Personal' - Collograph (23cm x 23cm) 2009
Collograph (23cm x 23cm) 2009
Some deep memory associated with salt water. Viscosity collograph (39cm x 29cm) 2009
'Fragment' - Viscosity Collograph (32cm x 22cm) 2008
Woodcut (22.5cm x 15cm) 2009
'Big League Leaf" (52cm x 37cm) 2008 Monoprint on handmade paper - These huge leaves grow on the verge where I walk each day - some are as big as umbrellas.
'Flight' - Linocut on paper (15cm x 21cm) 2009 I did this for a local charity called Lifespan who ask artists to donate a small painting for auction to raise funds for terminally ill people and their families.
'Gun Dogs' Lino cut on paper (20cm x 20cm) 2009 - Pheasant shooting is alive and well in Northumberland - the dogs love the work
'Crow' - Lino cut on paper (30cm x 23cm) 2009 - When picking at roadkills the crows dice with death flying at the very last minute before becoming roadkill themselves.
'Taste of Northumberland' - Lino cut on paper (29cm x 20cm) 2009 - Northumberland, the land of wide horizons, heather clad fells, forests and sandy beaches.
