Artists Statement
As a figurative artist I am concerned with depicting the seen and experienced world. Major focuses of my work are on the human figure as well as urban and rural topography. The sequence of woodcuts that comprise this panel are based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's extraordinary poem of gratuitous violence, psychological trauma, guilt and redemption, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', one of the greatest achievements of the English Romantic movement of the late eighteenth-century. The woodcuts were printed on a Hopkins & Cope Albion platen press, cast at Finsbury, London, in the year 1862.