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Drawing outside – from my recent series of sketchbook works
Carrying sketchbooks and pens around on the way to the studio and on random and more pre-planned walks has been a great way to find city sites in and around Glasgow (from the West End to the City Centre in areas generally near the Clyde and SECC/Finnieston Crane, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow University) finding
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Recent work and studies
Recent studies using mixed media on card, paper and sketchbooks have been leading to much more free and abstracted pieces that is the way I’m trying to push forward into more poetic, less pictorially restricted territory… ‘Flowing Through Space’ (top-left) was a bit of a breakthrough. Many of these pieces are moving fluidly through city
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Studio work and prep
Have been drawing from various sculpture and my other objects in the studio, this was a quick continuous line drawing from a clay piece. The image on the right is of preparation for new work, this kind of prep is an enjoyable art in itself!
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December 2011
Studio work in progress… From the Hill Top Some one from below Is looking at the whirling Of the cherry snow. Hakugetsu Recently I have been reading and considering the 7th Century Hua-yen Chinese philosophy that influenced Zen in terms of that concept of interconnectedness and impermanence and I’m pulling this into my worldview behind