I studied art and design at the Camden Institute, north London, in the late 1980s as a mature student. I also took part, at about this time, in several wood engraving weekend workshops. A small group of artists gathered together in Somerset under the tutelage of Peter Reddick.

Many of my engravings reflect rural scenes but I continue to experiment and have recently produced work combining wood engraving with a collage background.

All the boxwood blocks are printed by hand on my own press. This is a faithful replica of a 19th century Albion, scaled down to a size that fits on a table top. A limited edition of the presses was manufactured in the 1980s and I acquired mine (no. 33) in 1984.