A printmaker who works almost exclusively with linoprint, Ian’s work explores the secrets, stories and magical energies contained within the landscapes that surround him (the high moorlands of Dartmoor, and the dramatic coastlines of Devon and Cornwall). He is inspired by the marks left on these landscapes by people over millennia – marks that often suggest a relationship with the land and sea that has often been lost or forgotten.
While on this journey to discover and connect with the power of wild places, he also explores the internal human landscape, so that his art reflects and interprets the coincidence of these two occasionally complimentary, sometimes opposing, but always complex and revealing, forms of landscape – the one natural, the other, psychological.
