About

When I was a kid, my mum showed me a pop art book. I couldn't figure out how they got colours that flat. That question never really went away.

I grew up in Kimpton, Hertfordshire, and I still work here. I went to Camberwell College of the Arts in my early thirties, which meant leaving a job, spending money I didn't have, and committing to something I'd been circling for years. It was the right call. It took a while to know that.

I've been screen printing for over twenty years. I learned the process properly, built the discipline, understood what the medium can do. Then I started tearing it apart. That's where the work is now, in the experimentation, the restrictions I set myself, the layers that don't always behave.

My influences are specific: Raymond Briggs and the grain of The Snowman. 1970s Swedish illustration. Airbrushed vinyl. Letraset. The kind of graphics made by hand, before everything got smooth. I'm drawn to things that show you how they were made.

The work costs money, takes time, and comes from a lot of years of practice. I trade prints for carpentry and framing because that's how this kind of thing gets funded. None of that is a complaint. It's just how it works.

I'll be making things at 80. This is a slow, still-happening thing, not a tidy success story. If you buy a print, you're backing someone who isn't going anywhere.