Merve Jones grew up in Belfast and after studying graphic design and illustration at Belfast College of Art [’67 - ’71], worked as a designer until 2007 when he joined Seacourt Print Workshop and forsook the Mac for ink, card and lino. He thinks it was a good deal. “Probably the main element which has always excited a creative response in me is light – and that, mostly, in the way it falls on the creations of people in their landscape, whether rural or urban, indoors or out. The people themselves may not be present but we all, somewhere, leave a shape. And the light – always changing, in a way renewing, may reveal the unseen from previous journeys, pinpointing moments of activity and opening areas apparently not there before.”