Drawing

My drawings act as a record of the traces of experience, releasing the line and mark into their own identities, rather than direct representation.

I approach drawing for different outcomes within my practice. Sometimes it is an immediate means to navigate and work through ideas as a testing ground, at others it is as an intuitive response to a site which is under investigation. It has no reason beyond what it is; that is an immediate record to the traces of experience, through quick notations.

Drawing is not always a prerequisite for my painting practice and in some cases, drawing arrives after a body of paintings has been created. It serves as a summation; a closure, an understanding, a paring down to the essential elements that figured within a group of paintings. This in turn may become the entry point for the next body of work.