by Drawing Pad | 9 July, 2014 | Blog, Painting, Travel
Travelogue is series of four paintings that use the experience of travel to explore ideas about our relationships to others. The montaged images suggest moments in time, evoking memories and feelings about loss and...
by Drawing Pad | 23 December, 2013 | Art, Blog, Painting
I was aiming for one painting but I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the first so did another two. Not sure which I like best now. Probably the right hand version which was the last one to be made. I used the drawings made earlier from life as well as some...
by Drawing Pad | 6 December, 2013 | Art, Blog, Drawing, Painting, Television
Three studies from life for a small portrait painting I’m planning. My daughter Emma sat for the drawings while watching a rather depressing documentary on...
by Drawing Pad | 29 October, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Painting, Sketchbooks
I really like how working into these colour wash pens with more water you can disrupt the surface and evoke different possible readings of place – the mood, the weather, the time.
by Drawing Pad | 17 August, 2013 | Blog, Imagination, Painting, Sketchbooks
Three pages from recent sketchbooks, where I’ve been trying to get down ideas for painting. I’m not just conjuring the images from nothing. I’m using previous drawings, the TV as well as remembered moments. Thinking too about painting by Peter Doig...
by Drawing Pad | 14 July, 2013 | Blog, Painting, Travel, Urban
‘This Time’ – acrylic on watercolour paper.