I work in print, dry media, and free-form verse.  Drawing upon the landscape of North Wales, my work explores impermanence (the coming into and out of being) and is an attempt to capture what lies beyond what we see.  Fences, groynes, branches, serve to screen my landscapes and I draw upon elements of my poems to frame and sometimes act as a focal point within my prints. I work in monochrome (finding that a restricted palette of white through grey to black places the emphasis upon the mark) and layer line and tone within my drawings to pull out an image and carve into base materials of lino, wood, and metal to print what remains: an archaeology of sorts.  I am much given to abandonments — both places which people have left behind, and beginnings: process interests me far more than the product.

I trained as an architect at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, and am self-taught when it comes to printmaking and poetry.  I was born in Bethesda, North Wales, grew up in England and worked variously in architectural history, social work, rural craft, language teaching, and in writing development before working full-time as an artist.  My work has been exhibited at the Royal Cambrian Academy, the Mall Galleries, and elsewhere in the UK and my poetry has been published in PN Review, Stand, and the national press.  I will be exhibiting my work over the summer at Oriel Glasfryn in North Wales, and Ty Meirion in Mid Wales, and I will be in residence at Plas Brondanw in May of this year thanks to the generosity of the Susan Williams-Ellis Foundation.  If you would like to contact me, please use the form at the foot of this page.  

Exhibitions

• Open Exhibition 2025, The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy. January - March, 2025.

• ING Discerning Eye 2024, Mall Galleries, London, 15 - 24 November, 2024.

• Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking Competition 2024, Ironbridge, 8 September - 16 November 2024.

• Tabernacle Art Competition 2024: On a windy day, MOMA Machynlleth, 22 June - 4 September, 2024.

• North Wales Society of Fine Art Members’ Exhibition, Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead, 26 June - 20 July, 2024.

• Derby Print Open 2024, Derby, 1-30 June 2024.

• Ffocws #1, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno. March 23 - June 22, 2024.

• Trawsffurfiad / Transformation, Plas Brondanw 2024 Open. March - May, 2024.

• Open Exhibition 2024, The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy. January - February, 2024.

• Ar yr Ymylon / Outside Edges, Oriel Ty Meirion, Dyffryn Ardudwy. November 2023 - February 2024.

• Llanw a Thrai / Turning Tide, Oriel Ty Meirion, Dyffryn Ardudwy. August - October 2023.

• Derby Print Open 2023, Bank Mills Studios, Derby. June 2023.

• Mostyn, Llandudno, a showcase of recent work. March - June 2023.

• Open Exhibition 2023, The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy. January - April 2023.