Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your background? Where did you study?
Born in Rotherhithe/Bermondsey in London, I work mostly in Lisboa and London, with annual monthly bursts of work in São Paulo, Brazil becoming a more frequent fixture as well. I studied in London with the formulaic route of Central Saint Martins/Byam Shaw, and then the Royal College of Art studying Fine Art: Print. Then after a little break I began my PhD at the Colégio das Artes, Universidade de Coimbra in Portugal.
Each gesture seems instinctive, is your process fast or do you take your time?
Well.. I mostly work in print (obviously not exclusively but even when I paint or sculpt the step by step process of print bleeds in to how I make work. So one of the things I find very important to me in the ‘print’ process — producing woodcuts and etchings — is that it allows me to break down the image-making process into stages. It allows me to consider form, concentrating and working on that. Then, often on a different day in a separate moment, when I come to printing I think about colour more rigorously with the form already laid out. So in a very non-comital answer my images contain both the instinctive as well as the considered slowness of the print process. There are moments of speed and of slow-time bound in each work.
