The Twilight Zone at Chester Zoo quickly became my favourite place.

I would take my sketchbook in to the bats’ habitat around the time in the morning when the light levels were changing and before the visitors arrived. I soon became used to drawing in semi darkness and enjoyed the challenge of recording the ever changing silhouettes of the bats with swift sketches.

Back in my studio these drawings would be simplified and developed into a series of monoprints, contrasting the dark shapes of the bats with the colours of sunsets or moonlight.

Images from this series have been used on the front cover of Bat News and on the 2000 Chester Zoo Review.

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