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life

Sent an application today to be a drawing/life drawing tutor at London Drawing londondrawing


As I said on my application, I do consider drawing to be a major part of my art practice.

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Drawing

Like many people, drawing was my first involvement in art. The initial wonder of what could be created with pencil and paper is still a fascination, as well as the frustrations that often come along with it.

Through drawing I explore major areas in my art practice – the relationships between light and shade, subtleties and suggestions. I explore things revealed through a person’s shadow.

I have always been fascinated in how sparingly so much can be suggested in drawing – a line or a bulky shape offering as much meaning or menace as an intricate description.

I have increasingly been using drawing in my moving image – animations they may be called, though like my other work they tend to be non- narrative – more a melting or moving drawing – a drawing stretched out in time. I best like to draw with graphite sticks and erasers on very white paper for maximum contrast. I also draw directly with scissors, so the process is quite sculptural – shading and suggesting depths. Shapes, shadows, boundaries of where a person inhabits or exists – these are the areas I seek to explore. The idea of drawing, of making something meaningful out of very little, is the idea of art, and the core of the transformation the artist hopes to make. The simplest things can always be redefined and reinvented, both in practice and in concept.

My preference is for abstraction in drawing, although I value very much the exercises I have done over the years in “proper” drawing and sketching. I draw from intuition and the imagination, and prefer to remember what a thing looks like in order to draw it – this requires that I have done much looking and thinking beforehand. The purpose of my drawings is to express that abstraction and feeling of suggestion, and to evoke.

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7th march 2011