Around 1995 I stopped doing prints for Christie’s Contemporary Art which gave me complete freeedom to do as I wished. My work became less romantic, a little harder. I did more etching and stone lithography plus I started doing reduction woodcuts using MDF in very small editions of 12 or 15. Not 250.

Using one piece of MDF, having drawn on it an image in ink, it is slowly and intensively worked – cutting, tearing and scratching the surface, then printed. It is then worked on some more and printed again, in a different colour, over the first printing. This is repeated up to twenty times until the board is “reduced” to a tiny area for the last colour, the darkest. No more prints can ever be printed.