As an artist I specialise and focus my creativity on the medium of print. Print-making is my 'artistic language'. I express an original idea as a series of images which combine to become a coherent artistic product. Flowers are my chief source of inspiration, not necessarily the organic natural flora we find in the countryside, but also the ones we give each other to say "thank you", or "sorry". The ones we buy in a shop or from a stall. The idea is simple. I photograph flowers when they are past their best! At this point, they often seem more interesting and have a quality which appeals to me. This enables me to compose an image which "speaks" to me, and reveals a harmony and an aesthetic to which I respond. Then I introduce colour - a naive and childish building block fluorescence, which is always vivid and sometimes might be over the top. The more intense the better! Next the printing process. Here again I will direct the work. I boost the colour again, until it reaches screaming point. Every time an image bursts from the printer, I'm ecstatic, excited and inspired as the newness, flatness and brightness soothes my soul. It's joyfully magic and triumphant at the same time. But the process is miraculously simple. I control the quality of the work at every stage, from conception to inception. I am creator and curator, technician and canvas stretcher. Or as my Daughter likes to believe," I am both/and all, The Elves and the Printmaker ".