Being left-handed in a predominantly right-handed world has its challenges and with the added problem of a right hand with little feeling and fingers that don’t work independently of each other means that I have to find ways of doing things that sometimes involves doing them one-handed, using my very clumsy right hand as support or at worst giving up all together. The giving up, and occasionally not even trying could well have been the dominant way to go as a child but I was

Last autumn Dan Thompson contacted me to do a bit of printing for him. He had been given (or maybe loaned) some old half tone plates of William Blake images and he wondered if I might be able to get prints from them. Dan had been told that the plates had originated from Thanet Press sparking both his interest and mine. We named our day for having a printing session in my studio and began a day, that was meant to be just a morning, getting to grips with these old, rather dirty

The beginning of a new project and I feel I should stress this is not the end of Clarice, but a project that I will be working on alongside my work with Clarice’s archive. Start the Press. Where to begin? Maybe begin with now, work back and see where it takes me. Start the Press is a collaboration between me and artist/writer Dan Thompson. We joined forces last year after it became apparent that we had both been collecting information, stories, objects and ephemera relating t

Since doing the castings from the pillowcases and subsequent prints i have been asked by a few people to explain the process. So here is a brief point by point set of instructions. 1. Materials you will need: household filler in powder form, waterproof PVA glue made in to 50/50 mixture with water, flexible plastic bowl, spatulas, fabric to cast, backing board which can be mountboard, plywood or perspex 2. Seal the backing board, if using card or plywood, with a thin coat of P