Drawing Continues

January Drawing Club continues every month and the session yesterday on Abstraction and Emotion was really interesting. I spent days researching it and I feel I have made huge inroads in my understanding of language and visual thinking - they exist on entirely different planes it seems and yet language remains at least for now critical to my artistic development. My drawing has become looser and more around mark making and feeling around a sense of place but there is lots of habitual mark making around a more ‘landscape’ idea, which I am not worrying about too much. I have so much swirling around in my mind, I imagine it will take some time after the MA to let the dust settle and see how things land. I had a lot of fun in the JDC session tearing up old drawings to create new perspectives of place, which felt symbolic of my greater goals in my art right now.

The sketchbook below has been ongoing for a while. Lines in the landscape. My realisation that there are no lines in the landscape predates the MA but there not really being such a thing as the landscape has taken some working through. Language and visual thinking aren’t natural bedfellows and the word landscape is becoming a thorn in my side. What else to use?