Drawing,
My Heart & Soul

One of my first ever memories of drawing is from when I was around 2. I was crouching down at the coffee table in my parents’ living room, scrawling a scene onto a brown paper bag from the grocers. From that age, if I have a pen and paper in my hand, I am lost to the world.

Drawing has always been an absolute passion of mine, and has sometimes offered solace through very difficult times, because I can lose myself in it so completely. So much so, that once in my student flat share, I was sitting in my room drawing a large picture of a jellyfish and my friend Samira came to my bedroom door to say hi. I didn’t respond…I was so absorbed in my drawing that I didn’t even register her.

Drawing is such a crucial part of being an artist and a designer. It helps you think through an idea, allows you to make mistakes, correct those mistakes and put into pictures something that might be difficult or even impossible to put into words. Here I show you a range of some of my recent drawings, from the outlandish, abstract, to the life drawings and still lives.

Above – Alien Allium in ink and acrylic

Above – A sketch of my back garden in pen and ink

Above – Drawings of bat faces in pen that I jazzed up a bit to look slightly nightmarish

Above – One of my charcoal pieces from a life drawing session with Farnham Arts Society.

Above – Golden Tree, in pen and acrylic

Above – Sketch of Connemara National Park in Ireland, in pen and watercolours

One of my first ever memories of drawing is from when I was around 2. I was crouching down at the coffee table in my parents’ living room, scrawling a scene onto a brown paper bag from the grocers. From that age, if I have a pen and paper in my hand, I am lost to the world.

Drawing has always been an absolute passion of mine, and has sometimes offered solace through very difficult times, because I can lose myself in it so completely. So much so, that once in my student flat share, I was sitting in my room drawing a large picture of a jellyfish and my friend Samira came to my bedroom door to say hi. I didn’t respond…I was so absorbed in my drawing that I didn’t even register her.

Drawing is such a crucial part of being an artist and a designer. It helps you think through an idea, allows you to make mistakes, correct those mistakes and put into pictures something that might be difficult or even impossible to put into words. Here I show you a range of some of my recent drawings, from the outlandish, abstract, to the life drawings and still lives.