I always work from life. I feel very uncomfortable working from memory, photographs or imagination. I’m not always completely conscious of what I’m creating; I try to stay loyal to what I see without glamorising or romanticising. Drawing a rucksack in my studio, using a black oil pastel on paper. I work with oil pastels […]
Archive | July, 2010
Exhibition: Animate Objects #2
Cut-out drawings of objects by Paul Doeman. 13th – 22nd August Wednesday – Sunday 12-6pm You’re an animate object, a sum of many parts. Just like a rucksack, chair or ladder you can be taken apart. What is it to be an object? Is what something is just the product of its many functions? Animate […]
Speedball dissection drawing
These speedball drawings continue the boxing theme. The speedball was bought on eBay and drawn in various stages of decomposition. This speedball was designed to be fastened to the ceiling and floor via two rubber lines and small leather straps.