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Encounter Again

I submitted and had this wood cut print - renamed Encounter - accepted for the Mull It Over Exhibition in Brighton

 

Berlin: selected drawing

I filled 40 pages of a new (Arborita) A6 landscape sketchbook while in Berlin with Sixth formers from school. Drawing people as we travelled on U-Bahn and bus, art we saw in the galleries and small observations of places seen. Here's a selection.

Art in Berlin

Extraordinary Sculpture in the Bode Museum.

Amazing expressive black and white drawings and prints from Kollwitz
Berlin Sketchbook

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I'm always drawing the backs of heads

In church or on busses, it always the back of people. Surprisingly interesting!

Three drawings from the train

Three trains down to our friends in the South of France.
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Journey Painting

This is a painting that again, like Evenlode, combines both landscape and figures in a constructed space of my imagination. Click the image for more information. It was made for a  friend who is a sculptor, and suggests ideas about travel and journeys. I really enjoyed painting it and unlike Evenlode didn't have a very clear idea on its composition as I started, so it evolved as it developed. It uses a visual language derived from the drawings the figures are based upon, and perhaps because it's a work on paper and is relatively small, it's as much 'drawing' as 'painting'; it feels like a tentative proposition rather than a full blown statement. There is a lot going on in the piece, so I'd like to take elements from this composition and develop them into larger works.

 

Painting - Evenlode

The study for the painting was done quite quickly in about an hour but the painting was done over a week. I'm pleased with it and feel it represents my current interests, derived from my own sketchbook drawing and ideas about painting. The title "Evenlode" is from the name of the river that runs through the valley in Oxfordshire where my parents live. It's also the name of a William Morris fabric design.

Inspired by Turner

When I was about 14, I went to a large exhibition of Turner's work, including sketchbooks and sketches, at what was then the Tate Gallery and now Tate Britain. I spent the return journey scribbling on a piece of paper as the coach chased the sun down the M4. Today I did something similar returning on a coach from the Turner and the Masters Exhibition.

Top drawing is an imaginative interpretation of the Oxfordshire landscape as seen from the coach window. the sketches below were made from the work in the exhibition.

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Provence Painting

I painted this as a birthday present for my sister; its based on memories of a holiday in Provence: Walking in fields full of wild flowers and travelling through the French countryside on a train.

People watching

Wash brush, pencil, fineliner and fast work

In a New York Bar - wood-cut print

 

Final colour printed today. The original drawing, on which the print is based, was made in a bar off Spring Street, New York, back in October. The print is 9ins x 6ins.

Drawing in the Ashmolean Museum

Pages from my sketchbook made drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.