These drawings are somewhat akin to textile weaving, with the pre-existing grid pattern on the paper acting as a conceptual warp and weft for the pencil marks and repetition of modular shapes.
Through the deliberate and rhythmic inscription of a motif, a greater pattern begins to emerge from the sequence of elements. The initial shape is spontaneous and unpremeditated, but once drawn the mood and the flow of the sequence begins to activate a palpable emptiness woven between the marks. In these drawings a void is not an absence but a structural element of the overall composition. An aspect of my drawing is the unexpectedness of inspiration and intuitive understanding which arises in the act of mark making and lingering. The drawing becomes a visual expression of ‘contemplative lingering’ – a form of presence and stillness where the attention hovers within a space of pure potentiality.
