Drawing on collagraph plate of my great Grandfather Celeste in San Marco Square, Venice.

Collagraph print of an Italian iron dobbin used to train fascist youth - my initial engagement with the project was quite literal.

Experimentation with screen printing and staining on paper and objects.

Objects- this project included a kind of practical meditation where I used stained paper, screen-printed on it and then produced a kind of object. This is a small book form called a square flexigon (learnt from Alisa Golden's book Making Handmade Books 2001), printed with a horse motif.

I use acrylic paints with a screen-printing medium. I prefer the matt finish which I can tart up with metallic pigment if it is too flat. Acrylic paints offer a wide range of colours and quality, and do not required the use of toxic solvents during clean up.

A tiny flexion form screen printed with an old family portrait taken in the 1930's.

I began to refine my colour palette and effects produced through my background stain experiments. This was done using japanese kozo (natural) with ink and minerals. The pink evokes a memory of a snowscape I once witnessed, where irridescent colours glowed from the crystal white surface in the distant.

More stain- crystline forms and the grey, pink and whites of dolomite, inspired by Italian Alpine geology.