Walking around Waun Wen on Sundays, scribbling into my tiny sketchbook, I find odd little nooks and crannies that I’d never seen, places that are usually passed by unnoticed. Many British cities and towns have them because they developed organically at times, before rigid town planning systems were imposed. This drangway, almost hidden from theContinue reading “Nooks And Crannies”
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It’s Got Potential
Here’s another tiny sketch from my tiny sketchbook from one of my drawing walks around Waun Wen on Sunday. These little scribbles are very quick, fleeting snapshots that I can look at later to see if I want to go back and do something more complex. It’s a different way of seeing something than takingContinue reading “It’s Got Potential”
Four Seagull On Four Rooftops
Walking around Waun Wen on Sunday, stopping and scribbling, I noticed these four seagulls on four rooftops in a row, stepping steeply down the hilly street of Rockland Terrace. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the antique taxidermy collection at SwanseaContinue reading “Four Seagull On Four Rooftops”
Drawing From Sketching
I’m working on a community arts project in the Waun Wen part of the city for the next couple of months. Sometimes I’m walking the streets drawing into my tiny sketchbook and sometimes I’m based in the community centre, talking to local residents about their experiences of living here and also finding time to doContinue reading “Drawing From Sketching”
Star And Pennants
Here’s another small, quick contemplative scribble, done as I walk the Waun Wen area of the city on Sundays, recording into my little sketchbook. This is a strange combination of images, the signage – a hard sell in a second hand car yard; the massive local authority tower blocks set against a backdrop of KilveyContinue reading “Star And Pennants”
Higgledy Piggledy Hills And Stones
I’m walking and sketching around the Waun Wen area of the city at the moment, as part of the Home & Hinterland project across 3 areas in Wales. There are little streets of late 19th and early 20th century terraced housing snaking across the hillside and many of them have higgledy piggledy stone walls aroundContinue reading “Higgledy Piggledy Hills And Stones”
Pontyglasdwr – Bridge On The Blue Water
Here’s another of my tiny quick sketches, en plein air, in the Waun Wen area of the city. It’s not big geographically, but it’s all higgledy piggledy, with little streets twisting up and down the hills that it’s built on. The place names are great. This is looking down Pontyglasdwr Street, the Bridge On TheContinue reading “Pontyglasdwr – Bridge On The Blue Water”
The Falling Down Tree
I’m working on a commission at the moment, in the Waun Wen area of the city. It’s part of a larger creative project called “Home and Hinterland” that covers Swansea, Bangor and Aberystwyth. More to come on this over the next couple of months. One of the things I’m doing is going out for anContinue reading “The Falling Down Tree”
Wobbly Bits And The Drangway
Here’s a quick scribbly sketch from one of my wanderings around Waun Wen and this little bit of street has a dark, narrow drangway going off to the left and a very wobbly set of railings, bashed by a car, facing me in the middle of the sketch. A drangway is dialect from the SouthContinue reading “Wobbly Bits And The Drangway”
Strangeness On A Window
I’ve been doing a lot of sketching en plein air in the streets in the Waun Wen part of the city recently, and it’s surprising what you see when you stop and look. Really look, like you have to when you’re drawing. Here are two gnomes on top of a bay window in a littleContinue reading “Strangeness On A Window”
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