HYBRID describes works unique to Rice’s oeuvre that sit inbetween painting and printmaking. In other words it is a piece of work that has begun life as a print, but which is then worked on by hand, in part or whole, changing the nature of its existence. Rice begins by collecting the ‘spoils’, the misprints and errors made during printing which usually contain one of the main parts of an image such as the key block in a woodcut. Sometimes, he will print a number of extra copies simply to take away to play with.