Before the Christmas period
and before rekindling my love for lino prints I was doing ink drawings in my
sketchbook of shapes and patterns for future sculptures in enamelling. I was
inspired by old zoology and botanical prints and I wanted to create groups of
enamels that I could frame together. But I knew it I didn’t have the money or
the facilities to complete my project and enamels.

In the New Year I was
extremely excited to have rekindled my passion for lino printing and from those
drawings, as you can see below, I was inspired to carve my leaf, butterfly and
beetle prints. It was affordable and I had the tools plus lino to get right
into it. I use the same patterns from the enamels with my prints and I shape things
similarly.  I made a few pattern charts
to look at while designing new prints (as seen below). My patterns are heavily
influenced by folklore art, from looking at clothing from different cultures,
ancient pottery, to decay on walls and trees and plenty more from nature.