15 May 2012
14 May 2012
10 May 2012
Caroline Wiseman's lovely gallery at the base of the Lookout Tower.
I sell greeting cards and give the proceeds to Elizabeth's Children
a South African Charity caring for vulnerable, orphaned and abused children.
Please let me know if you would like to order some.
My week at Aldeburgh was busy, wet and a little cold, but a fire helped.
The stairs up to the sail loft.
Blue King joined me for a day.
and a plain sketch of Aldeburgh
16 April 2012
Caroline Wiseman has asked me to do a week long residency at the South Lookout
at Aldeburgh from 1-7 May so drop in if you can.
I am planning to hang work from the past year and a series of drawings of the three rooms
in the tower; lookout, net loft/sauna (installed by Laurens Van Der Post) and the boat shed.
Another late train!
27 March 2012
...waiting for the train at London Liverpool street.
the best thing about doing projects in the country is the journey there and back.
late afternoon light with a soft Norfolk mist.
Hockney's two drawings "Cut Trees - Timber" and "Timber Gone"
These two were the highlight of the exhibition for me. Spare, elegant and straight drawing.
drawn standing in a crowd
All ink pen, a water brush loaded with ink and one with water.
16 March 2012
5 March 2012
I have been commissioned to do a room drawing of a court in the Royal Courts of Justice
and have been experimenting with appropriate techniques. I think this will do it.
I am working on a house in Earl Soham and we have been thinking about the colour palette.
The existing colours are deep reds and cream so it seems that pale green would be a good addition
(in limited areas). This is my client's orchid.
27 February 2012
the girls and i go to swimming on saturday and wait between each lesson...
they have little wooden chairs. why is it that crocs always look too big or too small!
my phone keeps them in occupied and happy to be still.
its starting to warm up so Meg and I had lunch at Flatford Mill.
This is the view of the lock looking upstream towards the thatched cottage.
These are done with a lamy fountain pen with Noodlers ink and
a Pentel brush pen loaded with diluted indian ink.
I have another pentel loaded with water to wash or wet paper.
Portable and very quick. All done in under 5 mins.
This pretty much sums up my objective as an artist;
"Perhaps we find sketches so attractive only because, being somewhat indeterminate,
they allow more liberty to our imagination, which sees in them whatever it likes."
Denis Diderot quoted in Petheridge, The Primacy of Drawing, 2010
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