Drawing/Seeing

Pen on mountboard
Group Exhibition

Florence Arts Centre
2022

After spending most of my creative practice working with video, projection and digital media, I wanted to re-establish a relationship with drawing and mark making. I began researching drawing techniques, and contour drawing was something I came across which I became fascinated with.

To make a drawing you slowly move your eyes around the outline of the object, at the same time moving your pen across the paper, without looking down too much! This appealed to me as I’m fascinated by sensory perception and the brain/body connection.

I was also interested in challenging the traditional narrative of still-life subjects - such as bowls of fruit. Can seemingly humdrum household objects become still life subjects? My drawings were included in the Fruitful exhibition at Florence Arts Centre.

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Fruitful exhibition information: 

Florence Arts Centre is marking Spring 2022 with a burst of artistic endeavour, a forthright celebration of new growth and creative abundance.

We invited artists, makers and craftspeople to submit proposals inspired by the word fruitful, in its broadest sense.

<<fruitful>> productive, helpful, fertile

<<frui>> borrowed from Latin, to enjoy or delight in

Everyone was encouraged to push their boundaries, to shake off the cobwebs and try something new.

To be bold and ambitious.

To tell a story.