Outpost Prints
Printmaking/ Mixed Media Art Studio

My work is inspired by remote places and the idea of escape, whether real or imaginary. This may involve journeying into the wilderness, contemplating a flower, or delving into abstraction. With much of my work focuses on mountains, I gravitate towards bold lines, high contrast, and a stylised form of expression, striving to convey a sense of movement and the sculptural qualities of these landscapes.

My latest works also employ visual textures and soft gradients in monoprints and collagraphs, exploring a new aesthetic direction rooted in my drawing practice. Many of my landscapes are sketched directly on site and later completed in the studio.

ABOUT

Represents a mountain peak as a triangular shape filled with hand drawn hatching, grey on white.

The book Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards inspired the name Outpost Prints. The idea first emerged as a mobile studio in the back of a camper van, travelling to remote places to make work directly in the landscape. In practice, however, printmaking requires a more settled base, particularly for large-scale work.

STUDIO

Several times a year I undertake short expeditions, moving the ‘outpost’ to a chosen destination and collecting source material on location: sketches, photographs, observations, and a sense of the place. Some of this material later finds its way into prints; some remains simply part of the experience. Selected visual reports from these expeditions can be found here.

VISUAL JOURNALS

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My inspiration often takes me in different directions: exploring a particular theme or subject, a technique, or a material gathered during my ‘Outpost’ expeditions. The resulting work develops into collections and series of prints exploring these ideas. The Gallery on this page links to selected projects, most of which present groups of related prints.

GALLERY

I work with both intaglio and relief techniques, particularly enjoying experimentation through combining processes in pursuit of spontaneity and unexpected results.

PROCESS

New Work

The Wall: Grand cliffs of the North Face of Ben Nevis

A subtractive layered monoprint in greyscale depicting the north face of Ben Nevis. The image is developed through palette knife work, brushstrokes, and drawn textures, combining rough, gestural marks with finer detail.

Dark tonal forms emphasise the verticality of the cliffs, set against a lighter foreground and sky. A faint backlight along the ridge enhances depth and atmosphere, evoking the scale and severity of the landscape.

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