Skyscape - screenprints of mobile unregulated cloudscapes laden with water and moved by the wind: the visual, wet into wet, language of clouds. This method is reminiscent of ‘the vague and indeterminate’ nature of blots as starting points for landscape recommended by the watercolourist Alexander Cozens in his treatise A New Method of Assisting the Invention in the Composition of Landscape, p11, 1785. Cozens, for all his use of blots as a starting point, was described by his friend William Beckford as ‘almost as full of systems as the universe’.

This is contrasted with laser-engraved woodblock prints, The Weight of Clouds, a series that maps highly systematic transpositions examining the immediacy of what can be seen or imagined with the oppositional ‘interference’ of memory or chance. Printmaking with its ‘careful processes and potential for variation’ (Every Day is a Good Day, the Visual Art of John Cage, p11) deliberately exploited with chance determinations in the plates, palette, levels of transparency.

Flat Flander’s Fields - Letterpress (large wood type) with original observations, made during the residency, selected to be map-folded into artist books.

2020