I have been a practicing artist for the last 23 years. Before that, I worked as a tyre fitter, a factory worker, a lifeguard and a street cleaner, returning to college to study Access Art and Design at the age of 25. Now, as a printmaker based in North-East Derbyshire, my particular interest is in traditional printmaking using a hands-on, “analogue” approach. I designed and built one of my presses myself out of scrap metal, the insides of railway wagon wheels, RSJ girders and Landrover chains, with the help of a local engineering firm to make the rollers and machine the bed. The press, which stands on its own foundations in my studio, has a 6-foot wheel to turn the rollers.