i've collated some of my notebooks and sketchbooks, for the art trail... the smallest sketchbooks (the type that i always carry with me) are really notebooks with only occasional sketches... the studio sketchbooks i treat more as scrapbooks and fill with mixed media studies on paper, collage, and a place to work out compositon ideas... i've realised how few sketches are from the real world, although i often sketch directly from the collages and paintings around me... which is a little retrospective, in retrospect...
i've also been doing some quick pen & ink sketches in a landscape format sketchbook, inspired by my recent trips to north norfolk... i really need time off from the square...
[field, norfolk 2009]...i don't plan on going figurative just yet, but there is something very rooted and therapeutic in the process of drawing, the movement of the pen, traversing the surface of the paper, slowly mapping out the territory, surveying everything in turn but leaving some of it out, a gesture rather than a documentation, a visual sensation that just doesn't happen in photography...salthouse 09 : 2 july to 2 august 2009