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Peaceful
Prospects 2007 (ink)
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open book has its optimistic and critical spaces, complexity
and perspective can become foreign objects at a moments
notice. |
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Bae
Abermaw 2007 (ink on paper)
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second of two pictures of a hotel on a hill in Barmouth.
Click for large scale version. |
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Living
Moments 2007 (pen on A1 paper) Prints available!
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| A development
of a group of images based on randomisation of mark-making
in a controlled technique of limited forms. Overall, it
is to do with movement and active reasoning based on personal
opinion. |
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Barmouth
Square 2007 in pencil
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of a series of drawings based on basic shapes, simplicity
up against complexity. |
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Harlech
Castle 2007 in pencil
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is from the Panoramic view in Harlech, Snowdonia, overlooking
Cardigan bay and the Llyn Peninsula. Perhaps it was intended
to be a practice piece only as I have seen countless paintings
done from this very spot depicting the castle as it stands
here. |
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Fire
2005
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a set of drawings I did in relation to coming up with the
idea for an alternative cover for iD magazine, not one I
ever thought I would enjoy reading, as it's subject matter
leant in a different direction to my own, but I kind of
enjoyed it for its vaguenesses and even celebrated it in
my own fashion. Of course, I never had it published and
doubt that the idea was even seen by the magazine people. |
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Brown
ink drawing in sketchbook 2007
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my personal opinion, keeping a regular sketchbook is one
of the most important parts of becoming and mainting an
artist status. It is a privelage once you have finished
a successful image and even more so when it effects your
day to day life in one way or another. Drawing is perhaps
my most enjoyable pastime within the subject of art itself,
it is the reason I go to cities like London, in order to
visit the Galleries and to re-enthuse myself with the philosophy
of creating ideas and reasoning with the mind. To push the
imagination and storm your own mind somehow seperates the
mad underworld of existance from the grand enlightenments
that justify so much work. |
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Trebaugh
Gardens, Cornwall 2004
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by a commercial garden in Cornwall that covered many acres,
this place contained tropical and local plants of all kinds,
including a large pond containing fish. On one edge of the
land the garden finished with a path down onto a small beach
on the Southerm coast of England. Of course, there is a
face in the landscape, I suppose this you can read into
it from that angle also. following a path off into the bay
where waits a ship, then fall back into the image in the
trees. |
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Sketchbook
ideas 2006
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since my Graphic Design course I have been interested in
the invention of text itself, how the concept was initially
approached and its intimate connection to caves and walls.
I was also keen to see what would happen if I clustered
similar pen drawings together in a small space and created
detail through concentrated areas. This I drew shortly after
reading an English version of the Koran, interesting yet
somehow seemed to me, delusional and unsignificant and many
ways. |
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Driveway
2006
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was a place I was living for a year. In the centre over
the small hillock there is a meeting place and through the
gateway you come to a small stream that has been recently
given a small wooden bridge for the tractor that mows the
grass in the field. I drew this image, mainly to develop
my drawing of cars, something that was bugging me for a
long while |
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Two
people 2006 (Ink)
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was at a difficult point in the year when I felt very clostrophobic,
the weather was always changing and the intensity of the
sun wasa great issue even in these Welsh surroundings. The
main reason for drawing this was probably personally motivated,
exoression of inner feelings and feelings of having little
control over what is going on. |
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Hill
at the Back 2006 (Pencil drawing)
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hillside I have grown up with, there are a large number
of birds that gather in this particularly area, as I drew
I could see Crows and a buzzard flying around the area on
the top left. Although the top may look quite high, it is
actually only a ten minute walk to get to the top and has
a very pleasant view over Cardigan Bay looking towards the
peninsula of Wales and in the night you can see Criccieth
and many of the coastal towns on a clear night. |
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