Drawing – drawing – drawing – has always been an important part of my creative expression, I am self-taught and love the act of drawing. Over the years I have specialised in drawing cartoons and textile arts. Current interests include exploring free-abstract drawing and fibre pens.
2016 Project – Drawn Music: Drawing in response to musical experience.
The Song Catcher: The Song Catcher’ is about an imagined mythical creature who roams the earth looking for songs. The pictures are about the process of song-writing and how they can appear to have a will of their own. That music is often experienced as out-side of ourselves, and the musician is a vessel for sound.
‘The Song Catcher Improvises’, watercolour and inkpen.
‘Musical-Flow: ‘Flow’ is the experience of getting caught up in the moment, learning new skills, when everything seems to come together (Csikszenmihalyi, 1988). Musicians often experience flow when improvising music, it is an extremely absorbing activity and requires high levels of attention. I am researching ‘flow’ experience and the learning of improvisation skills for my PhD project. As part of this process, I have used visual arts to reflexively explore the topic of flow. Thinking about what this experience might look like if you were to draw it. From this I have created a series of short pictures using high quality fibre-pens.
The Musical Flow Moment – Bodies and Notations
2015 Project – Wiltshire Landscapes: I recently discovered the joy of high quality fibre tip pens, and have been exploring these, creating some new art work on the theme of ‘the world beneath, thinking about the chalk landscape and ancient seas and also the subconscious mind …
UnderSea
UnderLand
Kirsty’s Meadow
Orange Wing
Rose Birds
skylark arts 