I’ve taken to creeping up on people looking at my piece, “A modest detail” and saying “It’s the biggest drawing I’ve ever done!”… At 1.5m square, it’s also been the biggest challenge in my three-month artist residency at Tower Gallery – in its sheer size and in working out how … Read More
Rounding up and gathering in: week 10 of my Tower Gallery artist residency “How many drawings have you done?” In week 10 of my three-month artist residency at Tower Gallery I’ve looked through all of the work to find out. Let’s just say it’s a personal best (or worst) for … Read More
Design; creative direction; illustration; visual art… these seem like separate strands of creative work but I bring all of my knowledge, skills, experience and thinking to everything I do – including my Tower Gallery artist residency. As I prepare two pieces for the gallery’s September Open exhibition, there’s been some … Read More
In week 8 of my Tower Gallery artist residency ‘Reading the building’ there’s been drawing with wire, accidental upholstery, a tiny painting of an enormous sketch and a flower writ large on joined-up sandpaper. In each process, doing differently has brought fresh insight: The wire drawings are surprisingly tricky to … Read More
I could tell you that in week 7 of my artist residency at Tower Gallery in East London, in my project Reading the building, I’ve been developing some work: printing from the clay blocks I made last week; making covers for my leporello of shadow tracings; drawing another panorama; sketches … Read More
In week 6 of my Tower Gallery artist residency, I’ve been doing some giant sketches, 1.5 metres square, of brick detail, drawn in graphite, clay slip and iron. These bring together the two parts of my residency project. In this big space, I’ve wanted to draw at the opposite of … Read More
Railings; doors; banisters; fittings; hooks – they’re everyday things we meet in passing. But even the most modest details have stories to tell. So on day 9 of my artist residency at Tower Gallery, I’ve investigated, in the sketchbook I’ve bound from utility papers and painted with clay grounds. Glimpsed, … Read More
Whether I’m working on design, illustration or visual art, I love delving into the subject matter. So I’ve done a lot of research for my Tower Gallery artist residency, a project about the place itself. In week 4, I’ve been reading the building, literally as I’ve taken a closer look … Read More
Goodness knows what my neighbour thought I was doing, in the garden, wearing a mask, carrying three small bottles of powder, a jar of liquid and an egg… But I had an experiment to do, making brick and stone watercolours and egg tempera to try out in the Tower Gallery … Read More
Big drawings. How to prepare? The tiny sketchbooks I carry, which I bind from offcuts and scrap are – well – tiny. So, my Tower Gallery residency project being about the building, bringing my love of appropriate materials from my design life I’ve made one big sketchbook from lining paper, … Read More