The process begins with a drawing from life;  Art School in the 1980s we were taught to look and record what you see, not what you think you see. We did three hours of life drawing a week with really taught me the importance of observationDrawing from real life will develop a true representation of the subject be it a piece of garlic or my cat looking out of the window - with all its quirks and rough edges.I transfer this drawn image onto lino using old fashioned tracing paper and then I can carve it out by hand. I use traditional linoleum with hessian backing rather than the new ‘easycut’ plastic imitation lino, I prefer the feeling of the original lino - it is also biodegradable and so fits better with my environmental ethos.I print everything myself by hand, smaller prints are printed using my cast iron Victorian book press (which I found in a fleamarket in France), larger prints I print on my Gunning Etching Press.Some prints such as ‘Patterns in Nature’ consist of four separate lino blocks, each block is printed in a different colour and so it can take up to two weeks to print as I must wait for each layer to dry before printing the next. Some stay as prints while some also are scanned into my computer to be combined and tweaked in Photoshop into recipes and designs for print onto organic cotton homewares; tea towels, aprons, oven gloves and tote bags. My fabric products are (and have always been) printed and sewn by a family run business in Lincolnshire ensuring the high quality synonymous with my brand.