Four Weeks in Lesperon France, 2023

In my drawings I like to explore the push and pull of mark-making and erasure; active and quiet; positive and negative. The bandy lines of fences that lined our home in Lesperon quickly became the rich subject matter with which to explore this interplay.

All at once they supplied an abundance of interpretation. Appearing like marks on a page in vertical sequence, they separated foreground from background, cutting through soft grass and clouds of leaves that further emphasised the severe delineations they created. Their verticality suggested figures stood side by side, banded with wire whose tension held them together as one. Each post possessed an element of character and tactility that impressed individuality. They sliced the landscape into slim frames; grids that revealed and obscured.

In going about the drawings, I endeavoured on a balancing act of inference and description. Sometimes the posts disappeared into a non-space that worked to frame the surrounding environment, other times they were brought forward to be explored all on their own.

Other works displayed here show my engagement with the moments in between; spindly trees, farm houses, interior spaces, messy art making materials, and feet languishing on coffee tables.