“Industrial Revolution”

I spent most of my early life in the north of England; the home of the industrial revolution.

I used to paint landscapes; it's hard not to be inspired by the moors and peaks of north Derbyshire. Though that style of painting was fun, and taught me much about technique and the handling of paint, I found it intellectually unfulfilling, and drifted towards to the more 'academic' work I produce now.

These were the last landscape pieces I made. They are intaglio prints, with the plates made with cardboard and duct tape, and they represent the hills of the North as the smoke, rust, and dye they gave to the world. Each picture has two panels: in the second panel the hills are cut through with roads.