This is a skip standing outside the building where I work my day-job. It's a bit of a wistful thing for me; the glory of the colours (I had to do nothing to enhance or change the photo), the shapes and characters I see in its worn surface and the downward movement from rain and rust all make me long for an 8-foot linen canvas, stretched tight as a drum, with pots of paint and huge brushes, just as the old days in my studio at Chelsea. I love drawing with a passion, and it has been forever the smallest, tonal exhibits in an art gallery which pull me in (I'll never forget being blown away by a Francesca Woodman exhibition of tiny photographs in Artist Rooms - at Tate London, I think) - but every so often when I see something like this rugged skip, the old tug at the heartstrings for large scale, muscular painting comes back for just a moment.
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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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