Artist Statement
I am a Belfast-based printmaker working mainly in screen printing and hard-ground etching. I explore how natural forms and architecture meet, and how memory gets woven into pattern, surface, and space. Using layered processes and repetition, I make images that sit between the organic and the built.
Drawing on 1960s postmodern design—bold patterns, modular forms, decorative surfaces—I use grids, foliage fragments, and architectural silhouettes to show how built environments contain and mimic nature. Layering in printmaking mirrors how memories pile up: impressions overlap, hide, and reveal each other, making compositions that are both ordered and unstable. Screen printing gives flat, saturated colour and sharp graphics; hard-ground etching adds line, texture, and tactility. Together they balance control and erosion.
My work sits in contemporary print practice while acknowledging the material histories of reproduction and pattern. By pairing natural motifs with architectural geometry, the prints ask where the organic ends and the constructed begins, and how environments shape personal and collective memory. I have exhibited with Arts for All and at York Street Train Station, Belfast.