A drawing and a painting finshed today!

Pencil on paper,

Acrylic ink on paper.

New Work

Sneak Peak

These are a few drawings I am currently doing at the moment.

New Drawing

Private View

Photograph from my private view of  Delightful Snippets and Oddities"

At Gasp in Portsmouth.

The show finishes on Saturday 3rd of September.

More Drawings

A selection of drawings that are going to be in my exhibition "Delightful Snippets and Oddities" at Art Space Portsmouth at the end of August.

Recent Drawings

Open Studios at Artspace

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On the weekend of Saturday the 21st and Sunday the 22nd of May 2011, over 40 members of one of the UKs most respected and longest established artist studio groups will open their doors to the public for the annual ‘Open Studios Weekend’. Art Space has managed studios for artists at the converted chapel on Brougham Road in Portsmouth for over 30 years. Each year, the building is opened to the public who are invited to meet the artists, to see and hear about their work and buy directly from them.

Visitors will be invited into over twenty permanent artist’s studios and workshops and view artworks on display in the GASP (Gallery Art Space Portsmouth) exhibition space and around the building. A series of unique artist’s postcards, commissioned by Art Space will be available to purchase for just £20 each as will a special selection of original works for under £100. Visitors will also be able to meet this year’s Sponsored Studio Award Winner, Fareham-based artist, Alannah Barker and enjoy refreshments in the Art Space ‘urban garden’.



Some more drawings

These two drawings are experimental, I wanted to see how adding extra people in would affect the compositions.

Saturation Exhibition

Group exhibition in Weymouth.

Finished drawings

work in progress

To draw this woman I am using a different technique, rather then drawing her on paper, she is on canvas! Yep I spent ages sanding and priming the canvas so its super smooth, its taking abit of getting used to, but I am enjoying the challenge.

New works for April

This guy is watercolour on paper mounted to mdf, the a mix of coloured pencil and graphite for the figure.

This is little play around between the other drawings, just for a little break, but I quite like her!

Works in Progress

This little old man is drawing I have been wanting to do for a while, he looks so innocent and vulnerable, I want to try and portray that emotion to the viewer. He is only partly done at the moment, I will post a better photo when he's finished.

This lad is an experiment, I wanted to set away from stark white backgrounds and mix a bit of colour into the drawing too. He has the most amazing colour hair, that he really stood out.

This young lady is not finished, but I got too eagar and put her in a frame to see how she would look, I love that she sits in the bottom corner, I think I'll call the drawing "The naughty corner".

These two drawings are again- experiments. Paul Emsleys work really inspired me so I am trying out black background, it seems to make the figures "jump" out of the paper! The female is on board about A2 so its quite a large piece but doesn't have a huge amount of detailing. The man is on a piece of paper about 1m wide x 1.5m tall, but the figure itself is about the size of A3, but I am putting heaps of detail in his drawing. I am feeling really inspired at the moment which is great, I feel like I have lots of drawings on the go at once but hopefully I will be posting a couple of finished ones tomorrow or saturday!

Trip to London

I decided I needed some inspiration, so I had trip to London to see some work thats being produced at the moment, I went to see Fran Richardsons "Interior Castles", I was totally blown away at the scale and quality of her work. They are large charcoal drawings of interior spaces that are made up from collages, but the way in which she utilizes the charcoal and the contrast between the shade and light is just phenominal. The works are so delicate and yet have a strong euphoric sense that dominates the space, viewing the work you become almost in the space that the drawings depict.

I also went to see Paul Emsleys  exhibition at Redfern Gallery. Again I was blown away at the outstanding quality of the works. He uses charcoal and pencil to produce really dark emotive pieces, his work emphasizes the singularity and silence of the form, creating extremely moody drawings that carry huge ambiance with them, I could have looked at the drawings for hours, I was trying to get really close to see how he drawn the images but they gave away no secrets, he is a master of drawing, someone that I can only strive to be one day. Seeing both these artists has made me see the standard you can achieve with both pencil and charcoal, its has inspired me to get in the studio and imporve my own skills.

www.franrichardson.co.uk/
http://www.paulemsley.co.uk/

People of Portsmouth Drawings

These are recent drawings, they are more experimental then my previous works. I am enjoying adapting and changing the compositions as I draw them. The top drawing I decided to leave the dogs as outlines so the viewer is not distracted by them, you only see the basic shape and are able to fill in the gaps so your attention is drawn more to the female figure.
The bottom drawing has been done with graphite dust, it started out as an experiment but I liked the final composition, the girl becomes almost trapped in a geometric space, it is a totally transformed world.

Portsmouth people

The above  drawings are on A4 paper,

Drawing of today

Studio at end of week 1

Artspace info click here This week has been fantastic, its so nice to have space to experiment in. Already the collages and quick sketches are allowing me to play around with and image before spending ages drawing it creating some exciting ideas.