Drawing a rucksack in my studio, using a black oil pastel on paper.

I work with oil pastels and oil bars, which are effectively pieces of oil paint and take a long time to dry. I’ve tried many drawing materials and oild pastel is best at producing a dark solid line. Graphite seems to produce only a weak grey line and marker pens don’t have the depth of oil pastel which raises up off of the page. I try to increase this effect by mounting the drawings on card and then cutting them out.

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 objects was the name of an exhibition I put on in 1998; this show is named  ”Animate objects #2″ with a view to continuing some of those ideas.

Life-size drawings in oil pastel on paper and cut-out, dance and show-off the personalities of some of the objects that surround us.

The exhibition is at 242 gallery, 242 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9DA.

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