Drawings

This is my rucksack, one that I carry around with me a lot of the time. Perhaps it’s more accurate for me to call it my manbag? Because of a nut allergy I should carry around a few pills and potions, but often I fail to, as it’s rather cumbersome. Most of my life I’ve had [...]

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 [...]

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.

I’m completing two pieces of work for my forthcoming exhibition. A much larger studio space is allowing me to better organise my work; I can get a good distance from it and see my drawings as objects again. I’ve been drawing with oil pastel on paper, which gives me a fast way of making a [...]

I’ve been drawing more objects including a flexible skeleton and folding bar stool. I continue to draw objects in an obsessive way, from many angles and as close to life-size as I can using black oil pastels and oil bars. I try to draw shapes honestly as they really are rather than consciously trying to [...]

I’ve spent the last two weeks drawing two skeletons. One has a flexible spine, the other a rigid back. The flexible skeleton has produced more interesting and naturalistic drawings, I can put more energy into the work. The human skeleton is either a collection of objects (bones) or, in the form I am drawing it, a single object in its own [...]

Do roses look better in a bunch or all spread out like specimens mounted for our observation? Perhaps just like other objects roses deserve a chance to be considered on an individual basis. Like other objects flowers have personality and should be considered valuable in their own right, even without being arranged.

I took apart a pair of old-style boxing gloves, drawing them in stages of decomposition. I’m interested in how a physical world produces things that we don’t think of as physical like freewill, consciousness and imagination. Explanations like chaos theory can show how incredibly complex things can come from something simple. I think we use [...]

These drawings will form part of the Object expressionism exhibition at 242 gallery. The football boot and jab pad drawings show the disintegration of those objects, the rubber glove drawings show different views of the gloves.

I often like drawing what are thought of as mundane objects. This USB computer headset was sitting on the living room floor and seemed like a good subject for drawings. I like to try push myself to draw whatever is to hand. I tend to draw objects over and over again moving them so that [...]