As his manual movements became more restricted due to the ever increasing effect of the M.S. so the scale of his work became much more reduced. It was at this time that printmaking assumed a much more positive place in his working practice.
He gradually developed a very personal use of the traditional sugar-lift technique. His watercolours had always been built up in a wet-into-wet method allowing random bleeding at the edge of forms and so he experimented with this approach in his use of sugar-lift.