In 2003 I started giving my prints the title of “The Earth” or “Earth” 1, 2, 3 etc. I am now up to “Earth 110”.

I was initiated into stone lithography in 1961 at Colchester School Of Art and my work then, as now, is landscape based. Working on a stone was like working on the land. I liked the hard labour and toughness of it. I now work on stones in my own studio.

In May 2006 The Curwen Studio invited me to do a set of 12 lithographs on large plates. I drew 6 images on 1 plate, direct from sketchbook studies. Black was printed first on all 6 images, then, with the plate still on the press, I worked onto it by scraping and rubbing out the image and then printing white, thus retaining much of the original black. Repeating this procedure with two more colours. “Reduction lithography” – very alive like jazz. I had the title and I knew the “tune” very well, but I let things happen during the process so the result is not a reproduction of an original work, but original lithography based on many sketchbook drawings.