I seem to have had a pencil in my hand for most of my life. I still draw a lot. I know I haven’t truly seen something until I’ve drawn it and I think it’s significant that when we say, “I see”, we mean “I understand”.

For me studio work is about memory. I don’t often use my observational drawings for reference. Once I’ve made a drawing I’ve concreted that experience in my mind. In the studio I recall my response to a place or object more easily through the experience of having drawn it, but the memories become distilled over time; a sort of unconscious editing process takes place. Often what remains of the original image is archetypal. more >>