Original Sketch, 07·01·2026
Mixed media on paper
260 × 450 mm
Arches 300g/m hot-pressed paper, 360 × 510 mm
This untitled sketch forms part of an ongoing body of work exploring the South Downs as both landscape and score.
It is an abstracted landscape held somewhere between memory, walking, and listening.
Hot-pressed Arches paper with acrylics, water colour, graphite and ink.
The surface is a pale, parchment-like ground against which marks accumulate, fade, and reappear. Lines drift horizontally, sometimes taut, sometimes broken, suggesting hedgerows, field boundaries, paths, and the long, shallow rhythms of the Downs.
Colour is applied sparingly with muted reds, greens, greys, and occasional notes of yellow, evoking seasonal shifts, weather, and fleeting emotional registers rather than fixed locations.
The drawing shifts between control and chance: gestural washes sit alongside fine linear notations, as if the land itself were being listened to, transcribed, and partially erased.
Music is a guiding structure; the repeated horizontal movements echo staves, bars, and pauses, while the interruptions and smudges act as syncopations.
Original Sketch, 07·01·2026
Mixed media on paper
260 × 450 mm
Arches 300g/m hot-pressed paper, 360 × 510 mm
This untitled sketch forms part of an ongoing body of work exploring the South Downs as both landscape and score.
It is an abstracted landscape held somewhere between memory, walking, and listening.
Hot-pressed Arches paper with acrylics, water colour, graphite and ink.
The surface is a pale, parchment-like ground against which marks accumulate, fade, and reappear. Lines drift horizontally, sometimes taut, sometimes broken, suggesting hedgerows, field boundaries, paths, and the long, shallow rhythms of the Downs.
Colour is applied sparingly with muted reds, greens, greys, and occasional notes of yellow, evoking seasonal shifts, weather, and fleeting emotional registers rather than fixed locations.
The drawing shifts between control and chance: gestural washes sit alongside fine linear notations, as if the land itself were being listened to, transcribed, and partially erased.
Music is a guiding structure; the repeated horizontal movements echo staves, bars, and pauses, while the interruptions and smudges act as syncopations.
