Pages from My Sketchbook
This page gathers exploratory studies, quick mark-making, material tests and quiet observations from my sketchbooks.
These works sit between thinking and making — spaces where ideas are tried, abandoned, layered and reworked. They often inform larger pieces, though some remain complete in their immediacy.
Below: imprinting with flowers and herbs; mark-making using herbs and twigs; continuous line drawing in biro.
Below: Breaking down the landscape — The Fleet and Chesil Beach as seen from the farm.
These early sketches were made both in the landscape and later back in the studio. Here I am working through line and mark, perspective and palette — testing how the space can be reduced and reconstructed.
In the final sketch, a swan emerges almost unplanned — a quiet presence. (The Fleet is an important nesting site for swans.)
Musing on old farming methods, Sketches done from images in a very old farm book I found.
below: En plein air landscape sketch – The Fleet & Chesil Beach from the farm.
Back in the studio testing:
Night time:
Testing: Outlining
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