Jetsam emerged from my love of household junk and building detritus ejected onto city streets. Fascinated by their formal qualities I’ve made photographs and drawings of these for years.

After moving to Somerset my regular bike rides would take me past hidden field entranceways or clearings in the woods where fly tippers had hastily off-loaded similar unwanted items from their vehicle.

There was something of sculptural interest here, but the haste and the mix of objects both domestic and structural (and often globally sourced), tied into my overarching passion for the sea; they brought to mind images of shipwrecks dashed upon a shore.

I hand cut lino to create the print using the four process colours of commercial printing; cyan, magenta, yellow and black. As with much of my practice there was an amount of personal, almost ritualistic labour in the work’s production, so each of the four lino cuts was made by hand, a process which took over a year. The final print was made on my kitchen floor.