These spaces frame my domestic experience both inside and out! I have been drawing what I see in front of me - testing my methodology and materials - it feels like an adventure looking at my familiar world through a different lens.
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"Interior and Exterior Landscape - an intimate view" 1215mmx860mm
Ink wash, graphite
Centred here, my knowledge of this place comes from internal and external views, where the domestic-scape and land-scape converge.
In this drawing the landscape pours onto the surface of the paper and seeps into the interior space. The room arcs like the horizon across this landscape, scratched out in graphite marking light from outside, and shadows within. It is a particular and personal perspective of my place.
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“Kitchen Garden View” 805mmx600mm
ink, gouache, graphite
Working in the kitchen, the late summer Zinnia’s absorbed my attention.
For this drawing I drew over ink that had been poured onto paper and the zinnia’s predominate this domestic space.
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“Inside and Out” 700mm x 555mm
coloured pencil, copic pen
When we think of our home, spaces inside and out come to mind, living and working in this house I know it like a second skin. In this drawing I wanted to see if I could refresh my understanding of it by disrupting the connection between hand and eye. Using a pen taped to the end of a 2metre stick, the house was mapped inside and out. Then with left and right hand using coloured pencils, the internal and external spaces were pushed and pulled into focus This awkward rendering of my house has given me an unexpected perspective to a place I know intimately.
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”Stick drawing after Matisse and Lockdown” 805mmx600mm
pencil, graphite
Coming out of lockdown in 2020 following in the path of Matisse pencil I attached paper to the ceiling of my office , then taping a copic pen to a two metre long stick I set out to draw this view of my courtyard. After mapping out the drawing I untaped my pencil and filled in the objects and spaces both left and right hands.