In April 2012 I began to make these ‘(Sub)Conscious’ drawings.
I’d had a block for a number of years, stopping me putting pen or pencil to paper, so I decided to try and get over the blank-page syndrome by marking the paper first and seeing what came out of the marks I’d made.
The process: I begin by making marks on the page with a rag covered in screen-printing ink and retarder (a by-product from cleaning the silk-screens when I’m printing jigsaws at work); I put these sullied pages aside for a few days; On later viewing, I can begin to make some sense of the marks, and often the foundations of an image materialises, at which point I take a pen or pencil to the paper.
Like a Rorschach ink-blot, each mark could be read in a number of different ways, and if it dredges an idea from somewhere in my subconscious I can begin. I only allow myself to think consciously as I begin to make some sense of the original marks and so embark on the actual drawing.
You can purchase (Sub)Conscious Drawings via my webshop >
[Drawings 1 to 8 were shown at Dining Room Drawing Club – Nunhead, London, 17th April 2012]
- 1. We Three Beasts
- 2. Bear Carnage – SOLD
- 3. The Little Critter Draws First Blood – SOLD
- 4. Replicant Gary Gone Wrong
- 5. Walrus Pomp and Doe-Eyed Boy – SOLD
- 6. The Lambing Hour Cometh – SOLD
- 7. The Shamed and The Shameless – SOLD
- 8. Curmudgeon In The Corner – SOLD
- 9. It’s A Unicorn!
- 10. The Great Phil Oakey Commemorative Derby Of 2012 – SOLD
- 11. Bobo Bleuurgh
- 12. Springtime For Hitler – SOLD
- 13. Needles And Pins, These Four Limbs – SOLD
- 14. Oh Mighty Plumage – SOLD
- 15. He May Not Look Much, But He’s Mine, All Mine – SOLD
- 16. These Fists, They’re All I Got – SOLD
- 17. Clown Suck – SOLD
- 18. Thems Are The Brakes – SOLD
- 19. The Day I Got My New Wheels – SOLD
- 20. Poor Sandy – SOLD
- 21. Always Bringing Up The Rear – SOLD
- 22. Tell Me, Do You Like My Hair? – SOLD
- 23. Pomp And Circumstance – SOLD
- 24. Must. Keep. Tail. Dry. – SOLD
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