Tulip Study Painting

I trained on the fine art / textiles course at Goldsmiths' College, London before working in the applied art of textile design. My background is in fashion and interiors and my textile work has been archived by the Victoria & Albert Museum over an eighteen year period. Drawing has always been important to me and here the subject matter is drawn from nature, and the preoccupation is with beauty, rhythm and pattern. Since 2007 I have been making etchings at the John Howard Print studio. I first became interested in etching at Goldsmiths and returned to it when I found an excellent open access print studio nearby. I had always loved screen printing and the whole process of taking a small piece of painted cloth to seeing it in production on a 40 metre print table. There is a similar feeling about intaglio and creating an image on a copper plate and the way that the possibilities of the process can change the image. The two disciplines have much in common.