As an artist, I’ve often had that moment when I’ve come across something from my past that reminds me of my own work and it surprises me. I’ve come to think of these moments as stars in a ‘constellation of influence’, inspired by Hugh Dunford-Wood’s illustrated mind map. A way of drawing together everything in your life that has inspired you (consciously or unconsciously) - from graphics to colour palettes and fonts to pattern, form and texture. From all genres - music, film,

At the end of Feb I started a 30 days of Abstract print project. Here are the first 10, all drypoint with some collagraph and chine colle.

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A couple of months ago my sister and I, aka the Miss Alans (IYKYK) made it to the V&A Storehouse, a huge building in East London filled with objects not currently on display at the museum. It was hard to grasp or even know if I was going to like it until I went. In fact, what I loved was the space itself , so it didn’t really matter what objects were on display, they just existed to make the space. It could be the facade of a torn down council estate spanning 2 floors, or a

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