BourneI have such clarity of memory, as a teenager playing my vinyl records on an old Grundig mono record player, my punk and new wave sounds blasting from a speaker grimly hanging on for dear life, and my father asking me what that ‘loony music’ was I was listening to. Loony music. There was a […]
An art teacher once told me my art work lacked emotion.I was only young.And, on top of that, the teacher added, my creative endeavours were unlikely to amount to much.I’ll never forget those words. Once upon a time, they disarmed me, then they came to motivate me.In recent years I rarely think of them.Last week, […]
A common question I am asked is about technique. A few times in the past I have posted break downs on how pieces were drawn, explaining what materials were used. This drawing, from 2017, began life as a piece of black Strathmore paper. I knew there would be a degree of negative space in the […]
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