British Waterways & Locks


Bridge 235


Enjoyed a hectic time preparing for Artweeks: whatever ideas there were to start with vanished as the very process of getting out of sketchbooks threw me into new territory. Where as anything can be jotted down in sketch form how can such notes take shape on canvas without finding the information needed to reproduce the idea. Although a wide area around Oxford was covered whilst looking for input, the output was more of a Giacomettian dillema; big ideas, shrinking images. Not that any subjects required of themselves to be turned into wire like resemblances but the canvas board sketches became the main works, and just when I needed a square canvas, 4 turned up on the doorstep thanks to my parents.