Drawings & Prints

Below are three drawings that are part of a series that will take the form both of a book (a story) and as individual archival digital prints.

18 z

Below, some designs for shawls and scarves shawls red

Compo 6 red

Below, some prints on Habatoi and Heavy Habatoi silk and Lisboa cotton Fabric 1

Below original Ink drawing of iris used in prints against a print on cotton to give scale.

Iris drawing & fabric

Below a digital print on Lisboa cotton

Large fabric

Queen — Uta and Honeysuckle. Honeysuckle is a most curious flower when one comes to look closely.

Drawing 2 April 2017 red b — I am fascinated by overlapping layers, Greek sculpture of fabric over flesh, water over rocks, the sheath from which buds emerge, forms half revealed.

Drawing 1 April 2017 red — Ink drawing developed from designs for 500mm tall silver vases which in turn intended to suggest striving plant forms, as these are. The drawings 2metres tall.

compo of stage 2 &3 of drawing 4 — Developed from drawings originally made for silver vases in which I was thinking of flowing water. Returning to the designs I began to think of things underground, roots, germinating seeds.

The prints below began as mono prints made on an etching press during a residency in Vermont. I later scanned and modified them to create compositions that I imagine as fabric hangings, as indeed the ones below them featuring fighting pheasants and geese. The geese because I heard a talk in which was said that certain geese migrating over the Himalaya’s have been doing so since before the mountains were there. I imagine them every year wondering why the trip is becoming harder to make.

wall scroll geese 1 & 2b