I’ll be sketching at 26 Wordstock @ Bloomsbury Festival. And because my sketching is rooted in design, where I start is with what I’m drawing on. The event will be prefaced by the public launch of pamphlet format poem Berliners by John Simmons at Berliners and Other Poems. Pamphlets, then… … Read More
“Hello! We’re gathering in stories!” At Cody Dock’s memory wall, that’s the first step in finding out what people might contribute. The memory wall started with my drawing giant loops of the river Lea. Across three events, I’ve sketched people’s stories for them or coaxed them to add their own: … Read More
You might think these look a bit rough and ready. And you’d be right. That’s the point. For my live sketching work, I think about format just as I do with design for events. What’s the character of the event? What is the style of the venue? What’s going on? … Read More
Thanks to clients who saw uses for my loose, gestural drawing before I did, what started by accident through a studio booklet about drawing as part of my design practice, has become a thing in its own right. Here, clockwise from top left: A staff portrait wall at Bowen Craggs … Read More
Learning stuff as I work makes me ridiculously happy… It’s been a joy to be asked to sketch at Surge Co-op’s event River Walk, River Talk, River Study, a walk, talk and litter pick along the Channelsea River followed by an invertebrate survey with ecologist and invertebrate specialist Russell Miller. … Read More