I was looking for a completely different tome in my bookcases this week when I came across this delightful little book I had forgotten all about. I bought the book for B's birthday years ago because he is very much a shed man. At the time I loved it because it was quirky and about sheds, but now, having fully developed my drawing style, I appreciate it all the more. Each of Nigel Peake's detailed drawings has its own creative charge, for instance this shed balanced on unfeasibly delicate legs. I didn't want to scan too many images for fear of spoiling the binding by flattening the book, but the back cover shows beautiful little slices of colour which appear in some of the drawings. It's no surprise that Nigel Peake studied architecture at the University of Edinburgh. The book drawings were made in 2006-2007 when Nigel was only 26 years old. The playfulness of a young enquiring mind inhabits an astonishingly mature style. The ingredients of a shed: nails, timber, felt, slate, stone and rust - what a wonderfully inspiring collection of materials. It's a great book for dipping in and out, it was a lovely rediscovery and I have passed some enjoyable times with it this week allowing my eyes to ramble through the stories of each shed.
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Welcome to my work journal - a weekly update on drawings, work in progress, doodles and day-dreaming.
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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