| I use drawing as a very accessible, flexible and direct way of making artwork. In theory you can use a burnt stick or other basic item to create marks; I tend to use black oil pastels of various colours and sizes as they give me an immediate strong line, which is almost impossible to rub-out. So once I make a mark I’m committed to it. My work has often been described as urban and visually strong. I’ve been influenced by comic books, pop art, Van Gogh and urban signage. |
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I’ve been working on studies of a rose bush, which I found dumped outside a neighbour’s house. Perhaps it would be expected that only the part of a rose bush that protrudes above the ground would be drawn; instead I chose to draw the rose bush as an object, roots and all. Perhaps I’ll colour the drawings in an effort to develop them further. |
Here’s another video made by the people at Lapieza in Madrid. I’m shown drawing a small souvenir Real Madrid football, dismantling it as I draw, cutting the drawings from cardboard and then glueing them to the gallery wall.
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Pictures from the Lapieza gallery in Madrid. More to follow. 
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28th October – 23rd December 2010 Lapieza. Palma. 15, Malasana, Madrid, Spain.Using the theme “junk” I acquired a pair of old gloves used in a forge to cast artworks for other artists. I’ve drawn those gloves and then started taking them apart, drawing them as they disintegrate. A third piece of work is inspired by a disused old fruit juice carton. 
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This is my rucksack, one that I carry around with me a lot of the time.
As with my other drawings I used black oil pastel on paper, which I’ve then glued to card and cut-out to give a three-dimensional effect; which I hope brings some of the physical characteristics of objects back to the drawings, otherwise drawings can have a habit of looking rather flat. |
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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.
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. |
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