About
Welcome to my website!
These are a few of my favourite things:
Found objects and the natural world, and spontaneity and serendipity.
The process of monoprinting allows me to blend these favourite things to create artworks.
I particularly love the spontaneous and serendipitous outcomes that are achieved by printing with a gelatin matrix. Many of my works incorporate objects that have complex and interesting texture, such as leaves, feathers and other found objects sourced from my local area in Sydney.
See below for details of my process.
My Process
To create these artworks, found objects are positioned on a handmade gelatin matrix which has been inked. As the object makes contact with the soft gelatin, a textured impression is formed.
A manual printing process follows which involves placing vintage, handmade or repurposed papers onto the inked matrix and burnishing the paper by hand. The texture of the object is then transferred to the paper.
Because of the serendipitous nature of gelatin printing, each monoprint is unique in appearance and cannot be exactly re-created.
To create more complex images, further impressions can be made to the original print by adding additional ink to the matrix, repositioning, or introducing different objects, and repeating the print process.