A little book about finding your way when things have been hard. Every illustration in the book has been made by etching.

For the printmaking fanatics - I used zinc plates and lasercut them for more interesting outline shapes, then etched with nitric acid, with hard ground (a waxy coating that is scratched through with a needle for the linework), aquatint (pine resin melted onto the plate to achieve different tones), white ground and stop out (two types of resist that stop the acid reaching the metal), and spitbite (where acid is painted directly onto the metal). The plates are then printed using linseed oil based inks onto thick textured Fabriano paper with a big old Rochat printing press.

There are three large A2 etchings that each contain their own narrative, but also work together as a trio to tell a longer story. Seven further smaller etchings complete the book, which was shown at the Bristol Artist’s Book Event 2026, and my final MA Illustration Authorial Practice exhibition.