All the Springs We've Ever Had, collagraph and hand colouring on 4 pieces of 300gsm Somerset paper 122 x 172cm 

“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations—naturally. They have been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today – that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past” V Woolf essays

A Trap Crop, oil and acrylic on panel, 43 x 60.2cm (private collection)

‘Bright New’ is a collection of small paintings and prints expanding on a few repeated motifs, sometimes within the same image. They include familiar objects, mainly flowers, and use a loose set of self-imposed abstract rules in the process of their composition. Each object depicted is allowed to change and does not have to belong to a set of historical interpretations but can exist as a part of the structure of the painting. 

The City at a Distance and Freaked with Jet, both oil and acrylic on panel, 32.2 x 24.6cm

Ramp and Creep andWeave, both oil and acrylic on panel 24.6 x 32.2cm

Stalked (private collection) and A Buzz at Night, both oil and acrylic on panel, 24.6 x 32.2cm

Bright New, oil on two wood panels, 60 x 85cm framed (private collection) 

‘Repeats in the work and repeated images relate to the processes used in the studio but also the repeats in nature and time. In the studio the changing repeat of a hand printed image, or reworking a painting, from a sketch to a more concluded thing. The processes are not linear though. Often after finding the beginning of a painting, it jumps too far forward and you work backwards to a find a conclusion.’ KJ

In nature the changing light of the day, the seasons, both unique and predictable every year, cycles of forgetting and remembering, being surprised by the bright new lush green in May. The same bud forming, the same flower flowering, new again. Things continue to be at once new and familiar.

‘they allow us to revisit every new autumn, or every new winter, every new spring. All the springs we’ve ever had turn up that first day when we sniffed the first day of that particular season again.’ Ali Smith

Of Creeping and Ramping Habit, collagraph on 300gsm Somerset paper in an edition of 25, 22.5 x 30.5cm paper size 55.5 x 38cm