printing

Because he was literally the guy printing the papers, working the copiers.

Around 60 people gathered in the downtown art space for a screen printing workshop on a late summer evening in August.

"There was a darkroom in the vicarage and I saw one of the older boys printing a photograph and I just knew that was going to be my life, really," he explains.

He went to the trouble of printing off Rivers Agency flood maps, which are freely available online, and took them in with him.

For that reason, Gray said he employed a relatively new technique called UV direct printing that was developed for outdoor signage.