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The heart and sole of my practice is line-drawing

My favourite subjects are people who are absorbed in a given activity.

 

I hope to capture something more than mere physical form. Energy? Excitement? The very strangeness of being?

Musicians are perfect: moving, but staying put and, best of all, oblivious to me. And I love how they seem to merge with their instruments

I draw jazz musicians at a local club,

each week, making 20 or 30 lightning sketches, never pausing to see what I've got .  .  .

Off-beat drawing.heic
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.  . . until the day, when I inspect my 'catch'.

If I like one, I might develop it into a print: 

laboriously, crawling over a magnified image of tangled lines, retaining almost everything; using colour to resolve some of (but not all) the ambiguities.

This is one of my earliest sketches, that I came back to recently. It's taken a month to 'unscramble. And now it's destined for The Pineapple (See 'Pictures on the Wall)

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