Husb and I went picking the very last of the summer blackberries earlier this evening on a housing estate on the outskirts of the city. I’ve been doing a lot of charcoal drawings into my Khadi sketchbook throughout the lockdown but mostly of parks and trees, occasionally the beach. Today I thought I’d draw a view with some modern architecture. When I look at the work of many artists I admire who have depicted townscapes – Gabrielle Munter and Vincent van Gogh for example – it strikes me that although the scenes look quaint and olde worlde now, at the time they were done they were contemporary. So I thought that the next development for my en plein air drawings should include some contemporary scenes as well. I don’t know how or if it will develop, let’s see….
A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks
I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have given these antique artifacts a modern twist by combining them with images of rubbish – old fruit nets, bubble wrap and plastic – highlighting the problem of human pollution and how it affects wildlife.
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uy my work on the Swansea Print Workshop site please click the image to the left.
In this one, I combined the image of the bird with snippets of text of things my Nana used to say. She used to take me to Swansea Museum a lot when I was small and I could hear her voice in the back of my head as I was sitting and drawing the birds and bugs.
20 percent of the cost of each screenprint sold goes to support Swansea Print Workshop, which receives no public funding.
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