Gardens and landscapes. Sketchbook drawings, exploring planes, patterns and directions.

Monochrome drawings emerge as a dialogue with the landscape, referring regularly to repeated imagery. Through this deep relationship, mark making is pared down to an essential structure and language.

Sumi ink on mulberry tissue

Elongated drawings of sumi ink, using large brushes and pens, An ink made with carbon and deep and velvety in its richness.

Sheets and sheets of painted and drawn sheets

Detailed drawings, plans and measurements

Hand operated machine Made in Britain. A series of ratcheted brass rollers and needles, neatly fold and pleat paper. Thread holds the pleats in place and allows them to be pulled up to whatever tightness is desired.

Detailed plans are needed and clean and tidy workspace

Repeated elements of this visual dialogue are elongated into new versions using lightweight transparent papers. Drawings of ink and graphite, are tightly pleated and compressed. New vistas of pilgrimages and journeys are the result.

Long lengths of tracks and treaties can be rolled and folded into 3 Dimensional pieces

Possibilities of scale, framing and display are in question

Manipulation and re-drawing and thinking