Drawings
Compressed charcoal and white emulsion on paper, study of the studio environment and triple point perspective.
Study of a friend's eldest daughter - gifted by the artist.
Portfolio
Drawings Paintings Prints, images are from taught demonstrations as well as current studies into image making authorship and authenticity, source material varies the more specific work is from life, recent experiments with memory and narrative employ staging and allegorical versions of things seen spoken or remembered.
Paintings & Prints
Art Language Location featured 14 artists under the theme of "Place" These works explore a notional liminal space between experience memory and interpretation. This explore the idea of visual translation as an opportunity for narrative image making.
This work is about barriers real or perceived. The content features a walking figure motif, a picture plane of a Punch and Judy tent is abstractly flat, slightly modulated, out of which is cut a remembered urban view linked by steps. The scale and proximity of the steps grid and figure are a dialogue of elements which explore how we translate our experience new and old into a sense of now.
Art Language Location featured 14 artists under the theme of "Place" These works explore a notional liminal space between experience memory and interpretation. This explore the idea of visual translation as an opportunity for narrative image making.
Watercolour,
Gouache
Watercolour using paynes grey and gum arabic for the lift and negative shapes
Watercolour layers start with cool and clean colour terry are accumulated as a shadows through layering 35+ drawings.
Watercolour and gum arabic. Layered watercolour dark to light as a illustrator would use goatee but with the addiction of gum arabic layers art fixed if not over brushed mimicking a translucent oil structure
Watercolour using paynes grey and gum arabic for the lift and negative shapes