Description of works
The works are created with a combination of water soluble wax pastels, watercolour pencils and
occasionally graphite, on a heavyweight cartridge paper.
The drawing concept originated from a series of works based exclusively around fountains and light
displays, but has grown to encompass a much broader range of influences.
With suggestions from remembered past objects and artefacts, places traveled and sites visited, the
works are built up from a geometrical framework with its roots in classical architecture and the laws
of physics.
From this structure the works are allowed to develop unconsciously, building up layers of colour
and form, allowing multiple layers of the same image to be a visible memory on the page.
No two days are emotionally the same, and the drawings are a reflection of these subtle daily shifts.
The smaller drawings are time based works and usually begin and end in a single focused session.
Rarely are they returned to, each one being unplanned and allowed to evolve on the paper with their
own unique, spontaneous narrative.
The larger works are developed over a series of days or weeks. Although with each return to the
image there is the necessity to approach the work afresh, discarding and letting go of the previous
version’s successes and failures, using it merely as a framework to hang the current days expression
upon.