DRAWINGS
This series of drawings is a meditation on connections.
They are meditations on the circular connection between charcoal, fire, and wood, ourselves and the forest, creation with destruction, life with death.
They are meditations on light and shadow, the hidden and the exposed, details with the whole, shapes with each other.
They are also meditations on my relationship with art, on the difference between making illustrations and fine art: how my illustrations begin with an aim and a problem to solve, and become answers.These drawings are the opposite, they are explorations - each mark affecting the previous one and helping to create the next. They shift and change as they form, they are open ended. They are questions.
Woodpile III charcoal on Rives BFK paper "22.5 x "30 Private collection
Cordwood I charcoal on paper 44.5" x 60" Private collection
Hollows charcoal on Rives BFK paper "26 x 40" Private collection
Cascade charcoal on Rives BFK paper 30" x 42"
Passages Charcoal on Rives BFK paper 46.5" x 70" Courtesy of Planthouse Gallery
Hollow charcoal on Rives BFK paper 20" x 26"
Dark Elm charcoal on Rives BFK paper 26" x 30" Private collection
Empty Nest 17" x 17" charcoal on paper Rives BFK Private collection
Laura's Ash charcoal on Rives BFK paper 26" x 40"
Woodpile IV charcoal on Rives BFK paper 30" x 22.5"
Woodpile VI Charcoal on Rives BFK paper 28" 20" Private collection
Suspension 28" x 35.5" charcoal and chalk on Rives BFK paper
Woodpile II charcoal on Rives BFK paper 26" x 40" Private collection
Empty Nest II Charcoal on Rives BFK paper 14" x 12"
Woodpile V 32" x 24.5" Charcoal on paper Private collection
Woodpile I charcoal on Rives BFK paper 26" x 40" Private collection
Bird's Nest II 17" x 17" charcoal on Rives BFK paper Private collection
Channel charcoal on Rives BFK paper 30" x 39.5"
Tower charcoal on Rives BFK paper 17" x 13"
Fall Charcoal on Rives BFK paper 17" x 24" Private collection