Further drawings from 'Immersion'

‘Storm Damage’ drawings

2020, pencil on paper, 387 x 320mm

These drawings also began as a way of reimagining photographs about nature - and also a process of immersion/escapism, working on them day after day during lockdown. Documenting the damage caused by a storm in 1989 to a geodetic dome being built at RAF Saxa Vord, Unst, the photographs I worked from captured the chaos caused by nature’s forces. But I was also interested in the abstract energy of these archive images, where space seemed fragmented. So in my drawing, light and darks are reacting to give disorientation, and pictorial depth is in conflict with the drawn surface and is dissolving.

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IMMERSION - an exhibition of drawings

3rd – 22nd September 2024
Old Haa Museum, Brough, Burravoe, Yell, Shetland, ZE2 9AZ
Mon to Sat 10am – 4pm
Sunday 2 – 5pm

Most of the works in the show are for sale, as well as a selection of cards, prints and smaller drawings.