Landforms
This collection of prints is informed by landscapes encountered during long-distance walks across Scotland. Many works were sketched directly on site and aim to convey the expansive, sweeping character of open mountain environments—their textured, topographic intricacies, broken and ragged terrain, undulating forms, the vast, tumulous skies and the brightness of water bodies.
The prints are predominantly greyscale and are produced using a range of techniques, including monoprint, collagraph, drypoint, carborundum, and combinations of these processes. Subtle tonal variation and surface texture are generated through collagraph and monotype methods, while drypoint in black ink introduces a hatched, linear overlay. Where employed, a mixture of carborundum and acrylic medium is applied to the plate with a brush, producing painterly marks that often yield a dense, velvety black. Variations in intaglio inking and paper choice result in variable editions, reflecting the shifting conditions and material physicality of the landscapes themselves.