These are two further drawings based on the
car wreck.
Perhaps unsurprisingly I think very much in
images and the power of images, and always have in my painting, but it’s
certainly not the case that all painters do. I’m often very uncertain what
draws me to a particular subject, however banal, and the drawings I make in
different media are a great way of trying to dig out those reasons and unearth
the image. Drawing is a useful tool to explore and pull out some of those
feelings and sensations you first felt when encountering a subject and attempt
to nail some of them down.
These charcoal drawings are all of very
different views of the wreck. I feel compelled to keep drawing until I feel I
find something that comes close to the sensations I originally felt and want to
convey that I can then try and take into a painting. It’s always a painting I
want to get to. The drawings are a means to this end.
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