I'm Periodical

old

2011-08-08T07:59:00.001-07:00

When you move to a new place do you research the history of it? I have been digging and delving in to the history of my new little town, searching for something - I am not sure what yet but there is defiantly more to be explored from what I have found so far. This is a photo of my new home, date unknown, not that much has changed to be fair. It is a sort of psycho-geography exercise locating myself in the area - drawings and maps have already appeared.

Mono a go go

2011-08-08T07:52:00.001-07:00

Trying to teach my self the fine art of Mono printing but choosing to do it in my baking hot studio on a baking hot day was bad planning - any ideas on how to slow down the drying of printing ink gratefully appreciated.

The God of Dreams

2010-05-02T11:51:00.000-07:00

nocturne

2010-02-06T07:27:00.001-08:00

n o c t u r n e . The un-enchanted world of sleeplessness

I am currently engaged in a study of sleep... tbc

Big Dog

2009-10-27T14:16:00.000-07:00

Illustrative 09 {Berlin}

2009-10-26T08:04:00.000-07:00

I have been selected to show a number of drawings as part of ILLUSTRATIVE 09 in Berlin.

www.illustrative.de/

Several drawings from 'A Book Made of Tears' will be showing. So if you happen to be in Berlin this week, check it out.

FERRY

2009-10-26T07:52:00.000-07:00

My Cup Runneth Over

2009-08-04T02:47:00.000-07:00

King Harry Ferry exhibition up for the whole of August. A series of 10 paintings documenting the theme 'Vessel'. Made for the 2009 Embark: Ferry Art commission.

All hope and dreams kept within.

2009-05-10T11:55:00.000-07:00

King Harry Ferry Exhibitions

2009-04-29T06:07:00.000-07:00

The 2009 Embark ferry art exhibitions. In August this year I will have a month long show on the ferry. For more info on the project go to www.fotonow.org

serendipity

2009-04-21T04:55:00.000-07:00

things you find on the studio floor.

something has to give

2009-03-09T05:42:00.001-07:00

Our china skin can only hold so much

under

2008-12-11T10:00:00.001-08:00

just keeping my head above water

2008-10-20T04:32:00.000-07:00

Many of us are aware that some people are method actors, having to encompass all the emotion difficulties when playing at part. It seems that without noticing I have been making work about drowning and in the process, been drowning my self, financially, emotionally etc. So it is with this image that I currently am just about keeping my head above water. I cannot struggle like this forever - lets hope my story has a happy ending.

Tangents, Mallards and peoples heads

2008-09-26T11:24:00.000-07:00

A ha! for the avid I'm periodical reader(s) there is some news, I have another blog. Peoples heads is a blog I am dedicating to drawings of peoples heads, faces and other bodily parts, above is Boris Johnston with what can only be described as a Mallard, I have no idea what that could mean.

small books

2008-09-23T03:08:00.000-07:00

Ah well if I am going to post about that book I should really post about all the rest as well. This is a book made in one eight hour stint in truro cathedral, a panoramic drawing from one seat, on one piece of paper. (scaled down obviously) original 2m.

Excuse me while I digress

2008-09-15T06:59:00.000-07:00

Coasters - an illustrated anthology, has just been released for general sale by Atlantic Press ltd. I have contributed to it with the above image and also I designed it. So if your interested to see more of it you can buy it from me at £8.50 or alternatively from Atlantic Press.

this is the sales blurb:

"it is unusual to come across an illustrated anthology which is so coherent and well choreographed. if as the artist joseph Beuys suggests, thinking is form, then this is a very thoughtful book, expressed through vibrantly drawn and written lines.
Here, poetry aligns both image and text far beyond the poems"

Valeria Melchioretto

nice.

Organs of Sense

2008-09-15T06:16:00.001-07:00

In the way we talk about crying, it is often said that we are ‘moved to tears’ like it’s a small town outside Dorset; some strange emotion reassignment or at the very least to a greater place or space that we are not normally present in, so completely immersed are we, that it is impossible to think that it is within us, a part of us, a sensation that we truly inhabit, no – that’s just not British.

But maybe this is the answer, that tears are a physical manifestation of sensation, something that we all too often believe we posses, or are put on us ‘that film made me cry’ and so on, the truth is nobody really knows why we cry emotional tears, and maybe that is because we are so lost and distanced to the ‘now’, to the world, that we miss the obvious. Maybe its something that cannot be explained through science, of course we can dissect tears, induce tears and factualize about tears until we are blue in the face but so far we haven’t found anything concrete, because perhaps like religious / spiritual belief or art, science cannot pin it down, there is no answer. Nobody really knows why we believe in god. So strung up are we in trying to explain everything through this over used language, naming things, explaining things using limited culturally specific grunts known as words, that we could miss that alongside art, music and poetry, tears are a highly expressive form of communication as the English poet Abraham Cowley once wrote ‘Words that weep, and tears that speak.’

image by H.V Carter MD from Gray's Anatomy

The point of tears

2008-07-12T06:58:00.000-07:00

Its been too long now since I last posted something, so here goes – this is a drawing from a set of drawings about crying. yes crying. I have been lucky enough to get some of my work published by Atlantic Press due for release in September/October time, the small hard-back book will be (hopefully) created from the same methodology as before, drawings on top of drawings, drawing out the story intuitively.

So I am going to attempt to post more based on my research into why we cry and what the point of them is.

I've been sleeping

2007-12-13T05:32:00.000-08:00

It would appear i have not posted for some time, a strange but true fact. One might think this is because I am slack and that after finishing my MA I have done nothing - this is not the case. I can only apologise to anybody (if anybody) looking at this blog wanting more than biannual updates, although to be fair this blog is titled I'm Periodical, giving me at least a little leeway. perhaps.

so if nothing else I have been thinking about doing stuff

Exhibition

2007-09-14T03:30:00.000-07:00

The exhibition is up and my MA is finished.

No, I do not know what I am doing.

2007-08-23T11:57:00.000-07:00

working methods

2007-08-22T12:10:00.001-07:00

I haven't taken any photos today so I decided to post my working methods, the whole drawing has been mainly based around classical sculpture. After sitting in an empty white room for a day without pencils or paper, I started to visualise pieces of sculpture I knew, and this is turn helped me construct the narrative.

I photocopied the sculptures I had visualized and then worked on them, then transferred them to the main drawing. nothing fascinatingly exciting about that I guess but nice to know peoples methods.

With all its promises and dangers

2007-08-17T08:34:00.000-07:00

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf has a line in it that describes Mrs Dalloways daughters future as, "acquiring a time of her own with all its promises and dangers". I like that idea a lot, that as you get older you acquire your own time, as if time is a self producing circle, in which you create your own circle, identical to the other but unable to exist in the same space.

I am nearing the end of the drawing and drawing nearer to completing the MA, the drawing has taken me about four weeks and it has grown into a companion of sorts, but it is odd to think that it will exist without me soon, that the drawing will acquire a time of its own, it already has in many ways. Drawing is an amazing medium for dealing with experience and experiences, if we allow the drawing to have a life of its own and just feed it daily.

Shifting emphasis

2007-08-16T09:40:00.000-07:00

With only one week left to finish the drawing, in order for me to get small screen printed versions done, I have been working flat out over the last few days. I have decided to display the final drawing flat on a wall, not because I have run out of time to make the cylinder, its just that it felt a little too gimmicky, which wouldn't be good. I have started to play with combining certain visual elements, and now tone is also starting to dictate and shift emphasis.

Small modifications

2007-08-15T12:28:00.000-07:00

There might not look like there is much difference from the last post but its all in the details (honest)

Getting on with it

2007-08-10T14:35:00.000-07:00

There has been a slump in my output of recent, I need time to mull things over and I keep rushing into drawing without really considering, which is both healthy and at the same time messy (literally and metaphorically) Its definately progressing in the right direction and has potential to be the best drawing I have ever done. (no pressure then)

Touching

2007-08-05T07:05:00.000-07:00

I only have four weeks to complete this drawing before it has to be displayed in our final exhibition, although the work is purely about process and understanding process, we still have to show our work. This means having it finished. I am working on an idea at the moment that means it will be displayed on a large (3.3m diameter) cylinder, which if I decide to do, means I still have to construct said cylinder.

Now look what I have gone and done!

2007-08-01T11:31:00.000-07:00

I have started it.
The premise of all this is that as I draw I find a narrative, then using that narrative I draw the next picture, and so on. When one drawing is finished I photograph it and then draw on top of it.

Day one of a long journey

2007-07-31T14:49:00.000-07:00

I have decided in my ultimate wisdom to post periodically documentation of my latest drawing as it is nine meters long and one and a half high, it may take some time and go though many changes. who knows it might even be interesting. this is a photo of the wall its going on.

I shall carve my name into this damn internet even if it kills me

2007-06-21T09:57:00.000-07:00

This is the first of many peridocally posted posts. I am sure that I will find a use for this blog one day but until then, you shall have to suffer the periodic rants of an illustrator/madman.

Who am I kidding no one is going to read this crap!