Archives: Drawings

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.