Home Can be Lonesome is an on-going series comprised of portrait, still life, and visual vignettes, recorded from life and imagined. The prints play with revealing and concealing. Often the images and titles are brutally honest and vulnerable while at other moments they are covered over and obscured. Together the work presents an unusually candid and personal picture of a particular experence of isolation, anxiety and self-doubt that mirror a more general melancholy characteristically distinct to twenty-first century life. At the heart of the series is my belief that aestheticising pain is both a protest against ugliness and a meaningful way to reflectively engage with it outside of everyday life. As such, the images come first and are presented in visual language the artist finds beautiful, namely those of drawing and of copper plate etching..  

The Wall – or – Hold On. 2017
Etching with aquatint, openbite, drypoint, roulette and chiné colle 
image 20x30" paper 24x35"

Still life wth Bottles – or – They Went Dancing, I Stayed Home. 2017
Drypoint with chiné colle
image 11x"13 paper 15x18"

The Loveseat – or – What Makes a House a Home? 2016
Drypoint with softground, aquatint, waterbite and chiné colle
image 11x11" paper 15x16"

Self Portrait – or – [title obliterated with graphite] 2016
etching with aquatint and chiné colle.
image 11"x18" paper 15x23"

Six Busts – or – Home Can Be Lonesome. 2017
Drypoint with aquatint, spitbite, waterbite, mezzotint and chiné colle
image 20x27" paper 25x31"

The Wrist Watch– or – Time is Invisible For Me. 2017
Etching with aquatint, spitbite, mezzotint, drypoint, roulette and chiné colle
image 20x27" paper 25x31"