I am a retired lawyer, turned artist, currently based in Manchester.

From sculpture, I recently returned to my first passion - drawing.

This started with live jazz at a local pub.

I was inspired to draw the musicians -

to capture the excitement of the moment.

I draw fast and furiously,

20 or 30 sketches a night; never pausing to see what I've got

. . . until the next 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)