Printing Without a Press -an introduction

Coreoposis, acacia leaves and heuchera flowers heat set in a heat press for 3 minutes. Printed on water colour paper

It all begins with an idea. Or sometimes a process I want to explore and add to my art work. Sometimes I think i am a collector of methods but they way I use those methods is often quite unique to my way of working. My work is informed by both my own experiments and from the wealth of creative options that have sprung up on the web since Covid. Living in a small rural centre in New Zealand, it is often difficult and expensive to take advantage of the top textile and mixed media artists, but, Covid, and the presentations on line, have enabled me to take advantage of some of the textile greats of our time