My wood engravings celebrate the technique’s origins in book illustration. Story telling has been my career both in the theatre as a director and designer, and as a printmaker. My engravings are obsessively detailed, many are humorous, while others lead you gently through technique and imagery to deeper questions… My subject matter is diverse but is often rooted in natural imagery. From ‘An Engraver’s Alphabet – Endangered and Extinct’ to my new series ‘Heads of State’, the work asks the viewer to smile first and think later, so ask me about my work and I will tell you a tale from the woods…