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Drawing is the artist’s most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. Edgar Degas “I love your sketches,” said my friend with warmth, the other day, having no idea that […]

I’ve had my work selected for the 2018 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize! The exhibition opens in September in London and then tours to various galleries across the country. This piece is one of a series of metalpoint drawings based […]

Not quite a self portrait. Self-perception, perhaps? On the subject of mental health and how we think we exist in the world. ‘bust’ CjB, 2017, ceramic (for sale)

Through an established process of asking artists ‘Why do you make art?’ then using the response received to inform the use of fragrances, I have been making ‘perfume portraits’ of other artists for over 2 years, amassing 40 perfumes so […]

To draw is to take time to pay attention to the presence of something.  This drawing is one of a series of metalpoint drawings based on photo booth portraits. My artworks tend to focus on themes to do with memory […]

This is a painting that I have started (and not yet finished) of my friend Summer. I wanted to paint this portrait so I could practice sewing into it, but it’s taking so long for me to finish. I’m struggling […]

Here are some secondary source drawings I made using my primary source sketches from the Glyptoteket Gallery in Copenhagen. I really like the use of different colours to represent tones, and the pattern i’ve created with the pen strokes. I […]

I’ve been working on this portrait of Emma Watson for a little while, but I don’t seem to be getting very far with it. I started off painting with brushes, and I just wasn’t enjoying it. So I found some […]

Have trimmed my obligations to make way for concentrating more on the essentials of making work and keeping afloat.   Have given myself a horrible ultimatum, which is If I haven’t done x, y and z by this time next year […]