I love to come across forgotten work in my sketchbooks and find it still resonates. Above is recent work beside four drawings on the left from 2012, when I first began to insert text and calligraphic shapes into my drawings. I would invent fake logos and adverts, consisting of drawings of plants and cats with a word like 'Weetabix' drawn in a 'serious' way which gave it a comedic twist.
These drawing are not by me, they are by Bernard, my partner, who is a painter and has kept notebooks for many years.
These pages are from my favourite notebook of his. They fascinate me because of his writing and symbols mixed with images on each page. I have been looking at them again this week in connection to my own work; his texts, diagrams, sketches, found objects and images combine on each page to make something as mysterious to me as the Voynich manuscript. I would like the same intrigue in my own work, using my unreadable writing and mixing it up a bit. Thanks for visiting, see you next week! Images by kind permission of Bernard M Griffiths New work in progress: my work room has begun to settle into some kind of order after the house move. I am allowing the drawings a bit more space on the paper than previously, and incorporating messed up things like the little blue rain cloud above, which I drew using carbon paper. I like the fact I can't see what I have drawn until I remove the carbon paper. Surprises keep the work fresh, and there is quite a personality developing in this one.
Thanks for visiting, see you next week! Too many questions? Is the great Oracle Google leading us astray?
Photo: Book Cover of the novel One None and a Hundred Thousand (aka One, No-one and a Hundred Thousand), Luigi Pirandello, 1926: “Vitangelo Moscarda discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, everyone he has ever met, has constructed a 'Vitangelo' persona ...” Wikipedia This week I remembered a large sketchbook with interesting fern work which I made in 2005, so I opened it and was delighted to find the work just as fresh as I found it at the time. I didn’t take it beyond the sketchbook at the time, but I was up and running with it this week. I photographed the page and imported it into a Procreate document and spent a few very happy hours drawing a fern swaying in the breeze.
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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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