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Studio Chair
24" x 34"
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Artist Statement: Lately I have been thinking more and more about drawing, and some of these
ideas are becoming part of the work I make. I draw the same motif - a
tree, a chair - switching between a brush and a Wacom tablet, and play around with the differences. For
someone like me, who has both a painting studio and a digital studio, drawing with line is one of the
options that bridge the gaps between media. I still don't know the right term to use, because though I
usually end up with a giclee iris print I do not feel I am a digital printmaker, a computer artist, or a digital
painter. If I identify this work as 'drawing', and my larger paintings, which use similar techniques, as
'drawn paintings', then I am getting closer. What excites me is the continuing convergence between
painting, photography and the digital. The processes, techniques and of course software can be so rich
and surprising I sometimes feel like standing back and letting the pictures make themselves without any
interference from me.
I have been using prefabricated components, sections of cardboard that I
paint and build into temporary constructions before photographing. When I
reassemble these drawings - which are overlaid with digital drawing - I may
introduce quite arbitrarily an unrelated photo, a street scene. This may
hold the attention and subordinate the rest of the picture, but it can also
lift the mood of a picture, and activate latent contrasts.
In 'Studio Chair' there are two chairs, one being a small model in cardboard. The 'drawing' is laid around
the floor, the picture surface, and I suppose the overall atmosphere is of uncertainty: the confusion and
mess that is often the necessary prelude to a spell of creative activity.
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Drawn Trees
25" x 31"
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Pigeons, Kyoto
32" x48"
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Figures in a Landscape
38" x 48"
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