Deconstructed Figure

Happy New Year

Summer in the Southern Hemisphere means homage to Brett Whiteley's beach motif

Tis the Season to be Drawing...

Can You Help Me?

Bears in Custody...

Inspired by this.

The Notebook

I've been finding some rhythm with the keeping of the notebook, or visual diary as its called in Art School. I always struggled to keep a visual diary, as every time I opened it, I found the blankness of the page daunting. The blankness of my mind even scarier. Now, occasionally, I catch the ideas before they drift off into the fog. I have learned how to use one, mostly through years of trying and failing. Giving up. Starting again.

Having a visual diary, is incredibly helpful as it is the capturing of ideas rather than the refining of them that is important. I was told this often. I had only ever understood it as a restriction and a chore until recently.

These two are drawn from memory from real life.

After Millet

A couple of drawings done after, "The Gleaners" by Millet

Cubist Guitar Guy

Guitar guy is popping up in the notebook again.. Hes a cubist this time.

Last minute scratching...

joined at the head

The Waiting Room
Pencil and Gesso on A1 Cartridge

Inspired by triplets I saw at the doctors on Saturday, and the drawings of John Brack

Lament
Cardboard, Paper Mache, Gesso, acrylic and found object

I am really not one for tricky conceptual ideas. But I still like to play around with sculptural elements. Its something Ive been interested in for ages. Thats why I really like John Brack. He strips it all down to the basics.

Study of everyman in his pajamas

Sometimes when you look into the eyes of a patient, you look into the eyes of your own questions, fears and existential anxieties. They all lie underneath what you see, swimming in the looks up at the ceiling as you wheel them under the cold lights, or staring into the floor as if it were a pool for them to look into...when you look at them, you are often looking at yourself

Old Face

Man by the Window

another drawing done during my lunch break today.

Out the Bathroom window

I started taking my visual diary to work now, and drawing in my down time or on lunch breaks. I see things all the time that inspire me. I always wanted to be one of those people who carried a notebook, or sketch book everywhere, but it seemed somehow false or pretentious. I always feel like a knob drawing in public. Now it seems I am literally inhabiting the Harvey Pikar cliche. (only without the success) scribbling away in some filthy cupboard, with the mop buckets and the smell of soiled linen filling my nostrils:) Feels strangely snug, despite the cliche.

Bad News?

I see the eyes of sick people all the time. Lying there waiting. Will it be bad news?

Detournment

For a while now, I've been collecting images from advertising and print media that I consider strange, odd or downright absurd!! In all probability, you'd see these kinds of images every day and gloss over them without a second thought. But when you remove them from their context you can almost see something of the (want to be careful with using this word) Evil they represent. (Perhaps death dealing is less loaded) Im trying to twist some of these images to show something of the sickness of that culture.


These ones were inspired by images from the local paper during the Royal Show last year.

Nil by Mind

Eye for an Eye II