It often seems that making prints is my primary activity. Wherever I go I make prints. See below my portrait of a total solar eclipse in Tirol - drawn and cut during the eclipse itself! - or a pig in trouble in Peru, or an eco-warrior in an English shire. Customs officers at airports are often very suspicious of my cutting tools, thinking them to be weapons of destruction rather than creation. 'What is it that you do?' they ask. 'I make prints,' I say.

I made my first print sitting on the floor of a barn in Ogle village, Northumberland, in my teens - it is included on this page. I have been busy with prints ever since. For me a print can be as significant a statement as any of my plays or novels. Each print is a story, a poem, the text of a neverending drama.

These are all linocuts, printed at my studio MONGOOSIER THAN THOU.