Saturday 21 May 2011

Flower Monster

Fine Liner

Produced as part of my floral series where I am exploring the sole use of black and white, to emphasise striking patterns, shapes and forms that exist within, around and amongst plants and flowers. 

Ripples - Folk Rhythm 04

Fine Liner and water
Produced as part of my Sound Imagery Series and created during a live performance at the Holmfirth Folk Festival 2011. This image was created by focusing my attention purely on the sounds I could hear, allowing my hand to draw in time with the music and gather a rhythm in symmetry to the band. 

Petal Rings

Fine Liner
Produced as part of my floral series, developed through observational drawing of flowers in my garden.

Willow - Folk Rhythm 03

Fine Liner and water
Produced as part of my Sound Imagery Series and created during a live performance at the Holmfirth Folk Festival 2011.

Flower Rabbit

Fine Liner
Produced as part of my floral series, developed through observational drawing of flowers in my garden. 

Floral Wriggle

Fine Liner
Produced as part of my floral series, developed through observational drawing of flowers in my garden. 

Bark - Folk Rhythm 02

Fine liner and water
Produced as part of my Sound Imagery Series and created during a live performance at the Holmfirth Folk Festival 2011. 

Starlight - Folk Rhythm 01

Fine liner and water
Produced as part of my Sound Imagery Series and created during a live performance at the Holmfirth Folk Festival 2011. This image was created by focusing my attention purely on the sounds I could hear, allowing my hand to draw in time with the music and gather a rhythm in symmetry to the band. 

Flower Swirl

Fine Liner
Produced as part of my floral series, developed through observational drawing of flowers in my garden. 
 

Black Tulip

Fine Liner

Produced as part of my floral series where I am exploring the sole use of black and white, to emphasise striking patterns, shapes and forms that exist within, around and amongst plants and flowers.

Dancing Flower

Pen

This piece was inspired by the Moorcroft Pottery Collection at Cannon Hall and was one of many I produced as background images for a large scale digital print created by a local artist, Fabric Lenny, which now features in the permanent collection.

Squirrel

Ink and posca
A sketch of the hungry squirrel that visits my garden most days.

Jara

A quick sketch produced as an emotional response to an inspiring live mixed media perfomance at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

Sore King Trickle

Limited edition giclee print
A collaborative piece of artwork with Fabric Lenny

Coal Tit

A composite image of a Coal Tit feeding from my garden feeder in the winter. This image comprises of three photographs of the Coal Tit in flight carefully juxtaposed to subtly reveal the Coal Tit against the beautiful garden colours. 
 

Distant Cow

A distant Highland Cow photographed in a field at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, naturally framed by a thorn plant. 

 

Water Colours


This is a photograph I took at Old Moor RSPB of trees reflected in water, creating a painterly watercolour effect through pure photography.

Dragonfly


A composite image of a dragonfly photographed at Old Moor RSPB Reserve, overlayed with a close up shot of wind-blown reeds, processed using a subtle watercolour filter.

Friday 20 May 2011

Bubbles

Ink and posca
An explosion of colour to emphasize shape and form, grounded by solid black swirls.

Paint Close Up

Household paint and felt tip
A close up of "Paint".

Paint

Household Wall Paint and felt tip
Created by dipping my fingers in paint and pressing on the paper, with the detailed added in felt tip to highlight the intricate paint smears. Inspired by my paint covered hands at the end of a day decorating


Lillies

Inks and posca
An observational drawing of a beautiful bunch of lillies.

Ink Splat

Ink
An experimental piece testing out some new inks.


Ink Trail

Ink and posca
A close up of an experimental piece using water soluble inks and posca.

Falling Flowers

Felt tip
A design created by overlapping a simple flower shape, to create new shapes and patterns within itself. Subtle colours have been used to enhance the pattern affect.

Twinkle Toes

Felt tip
A black and white patterned character created as part of a series of fun characters which have the potential to be transformed into hand drawn animated characters...

Starfish

Felt tip
A black, grey and white patterned starfish created as part of a series of fun characters which have the potential to be transformed into hand drawn animated characters...

Thursday 19 May 2011

Explode

Ink and posca
An explosion of colour and shape marking the beginnings of my experimental pattern based work delicately blending water soluble and non water soluble inks together.

White Tale

Felt tip
A sketch of an eagle drawn from a photograph I took of a White Tailed Eagle in North Yorkshire.

Stay Close

Ink and watercolour pencils
A detailed A3 drawing of mum and baby elephant walking side by side

Tiger

Ink and water
A quick sketch of 'Tiger" my other house rabbit, as she gazes out the window.

Dumpling

Ink and water
This is a quick sketch of one of my adorable house rabbits 'Dumpling'. She is very difficult to draw as she is constantly moving. Great fun tho!

Tuesday 17 May 2011

Twining

Ink and water on handmade paper from South India 
Inspired by the seemingly intertwined bare branches of forest trees as viewed from a distant hill.