Drawing On The Housing Estate

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.

To buy 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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