All my drawings are translations, inspired by various media such as photography, film and tv, altering the scale, medium and often increasing the size dramatically.

In the stitched works, I use literature, novels, plays and newspapers such as the FT and sheet music in my work as a surface to work on, the process of stitching the pages together has a personal significance.
The stitching interrupts and disrupts the drawing and the text, while informing the drawing with its own structure as it holds and connects the pages together.
The printed pages I use are both concealed and revealed by the process of drawing over their surface.
During the slow process of stitching I pause to read lines some of which will be covered by the charcoal or pastel marks of my drawing.
My hope is that in the exposed sentences, passages, words, of the authors, the glimpses of revealed text will invite or rekindle a desire in the viewer to seek out the book and read it or re-read it, so a journey of discovery begins.

Finding inspiration from the works of many photographers both past and present, from Atget through to Winogrand including the contemporary photographer Tokihiro Sato to name a few.
I often revisit images, working in series, Tokihiro Sato has been kind enough to give me permission to work form his photographs, his magical lit woodland photographs were taken in the ancient Japanese beech forests in northern Japan, Shirakami-Sanchi, a Uniseco World Heritage site.
Drawing has been my primary way of working for many years now, there is something elemental about charcoal, it is one of the least processed of tools to draw with, when I am holding a stick of charcoal, I am connected to the material that I am making a mark with, I also use soft pastel sticks with their rich array of pigments, differing textures, sometimes combining both charcoal and pastel in the same drawing and now to explore variation further I am also using paint in some of my works..
My intention is to shine a light on the original while creating something new of my own.