Doodles 2019 - 2020

Drawing is always my starting point. I draw when I want to get to the underside of things; to excavate back in search of what I don’t yet know. I have an AS brain without filters, therefore I need to find ways to buffer sensory and information overload. For me drawing is revelatory, a process of recognition, a visual dérive; drifting through the unconscious to connect the metamemorial dots. I draw over and over because repetition frees the hand and allows the image to become porous. Sometimes these doodles become triggers for new paintings

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Below doodles oil and acrylic paint on paper various sizes

Below - Drawings on shuan/Xuan paper (Chinese calligraphy paper) 33x 24cm made during the last day in the studio before lockdown, responding to a phrase I’d scrawled on the studio wall ‘different rules for women’.