I am between-places
Large sculpture is not feasible at this time, so I am returning to easily stored mediums that I can transport. Inks Papers Oils here.
The misty culture of the imagination crops up here, it appears that as a society we are no longer supposed to dream or imagine fantastical places, we have to work and come home and often there is no time left to play and create. Imagination is important but is not encouraged enough in the modern 'contemporary' world as we have no time to be still, to pause and appreciate our personal crafted dreams, so this is a glorification of the dream, the imagination, the places between.
Pen and Ink
I am exploring the insignificant marks on a page, the scuff marks and the way the page has trapped larger chunks of pulp in a random fashion. It is as though the page always wanted to be something more, knows what it will become and all of this is trapped inside the page, waiting. I pick the marks out in pen to start, this tends to be dots and bubbles, I then join these fragments together on both sides of the page tracing through patterns across many pages of sketches layering the images of research into the new work which in turn feeds the next artwork.
Drawings and Photoshop
Wanting to experiment in colour and putting work on the web I have scanned in my drawings and coloured them in using Photoshop. The tools have produced interesting effects such as lighting and the use of 3D space from my 2D starting point by layering the works over each other.
