I've been working as a designer and art director in the advertising industry since 2003. By day I make things for clients, and by night I take out my frustrations by cutting linoleum.

I started messing around with linocutting and relief printing because I wanted to make neat and pretty little repeat pattern stamps for fabric, and become rich by selling my designs on Etsy.

This obviously did not go according to plan.

My style is far from neat and pretty. So by accident, I discovered that I really enjoyed making larger, dramatic and hectic linocuts that were the opposite of cute.

Everything is done by hand. I carve the lino with woodcutting tools, roll the ink on the plate with a brayer and use brute hand force to press the inked image on to paper. The process is time-consuming and can only be described as a labour of love (and sometimes hate, and pain, and much swearing).