Archives: Drawings

“When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people and respectful to all people. The grateful world is a world of joyful people.” Dalai Lama This is […]

“Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.” Bjork I have been doing these drawings the last few days for a sort of fun collaboration with Bjork from a distance. I love Bjork’s […]

These are a few photos of collages I have made over the past two weeks. I am using recycled cardboard boxes and torn up old drawings from sketchbooks, yellow envelope drawings brown paper bags and white watercolour paper. I have been moving through a lot of trauma and the drawings have been quite cathartic. Hopefully […]

“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.” Henri Cartier-Bresson This is a small selection of drawings I have done during my residency that is coming to an end next week. I shall not explain them to much as they are images with text so they are pretty self-explanatory. They are mainly concerned with […]

These drawings were made in a sketchbook in 1992 while I was studying a bachelor of fine arts at COFA in Sydney. Ideas were inspired by the books and movies and artists who interested me such as the movie Bladerunner and music and artist including my first interest in Joseph Beuys. My drawing style then […]

by Luke Foster “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them,humanity cannot survive.” “Our prime purpose in this life is to helpothers. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”His Holiness the Dalai LamaI have been studying the teachings of the Dalai Lama online over thelast few months and created these drawings […]

For around the last eight years I have been in snail mail contact with the American clown doctor Patch Adams. He constantly writes that having wonderful friends is part of the key to having a healthy and happy life. I always knew that my friends were fantastic but not in such a profound way that […]

This series of drawings has been made into an artist book and  DVD drawing slide show. Made in 2018 the title comes from the idea of the flaneur. The idea of the flaneur is very enticing. It means sauntering and soaking up society.

This series of drawings was made mainly during two studio residencies at the Big Ci in Bilpin in the Blue Mountains in October 2020 and March 2021. The residency was a very social time with other creatives and the site is nestled in a beautiful natural environment. The highlight of the residencies was the chance […]

In March 2018 I undertook a studio residency at the Big Ci in Bilpin in the Blue Mountains. There was a great community of artists and Rae and Yuri who ran the space. I made a series of large and small drawings revolving around my experiences there and ideas of community and spiritualism.

I started this project at the beginning of July in 2021 and now in mid August have around 400 drawings. They are on an array of different types of paper including graph paper, lined paper, canvas paper, watercolour paper and small envelopes. They are mainly on a4 paper. They are made with black artline pens […]

This book of drawings was made in May 2017 while backpacking in Europe.A flaneur is someone who is immersed in café culture and watches and records society in motion. While in Venice the highlight was visiting the Venice Biennale. My favourite artist was Kiki Smith who made very sensitive figurative drawings on tissue paper.

In May 2016 I went on a backpacking holiday in New York City. I stayed in Manhattan, Harlem and Brooklyn. I brought drawing paper and drew every day for the first week until I ran out of paper that I use to make books of drawings. I use high quality A4 watercolour drawing paper. I […]

In June 2018 I made a trip to Japan and South Korea on a backpacking/ drawing trip. In Japan I stayed at the Empire Hotel in Shinjuku and in Korea I stayed in Incheon and Daejeon. The drawings I made were about how the trip influenced my mental state. There was good food lots of […]

This series of drawings was made into an artist book of original drawings and DVD slide show and is inspired by my wise and caring mother. I am also deeply influenced by the YouTube videos and correspondence letters with the famous clown doctor Patch Adams who talks about the profound influence of mothers love.