Pilgrimage
DRAWN - The art show hosted by the Royal West of England Academy to celebrate drawing.
Drawing is a fundamental tool, a basic foundation on which art depends. It is a process and a journey, the artist realising thought as the hand moves across the paper.
Drawings can be made for public display or intimate notations from which bold, public work, is then born.
Complex or simple, large or small, elaborately finished or no more than a few bold lines - drawings are personal.
Far from a traditional drawing show, the RWA hosted works varying hugely in materials, subject, and style: flocked screenprints to chalk drawn directly onto gallery floors.
All the works pushed boundaries to explore the concept and power of drawing.
I embraced this spirit of freedom and arrived at my boundary pushing work;
Pilgrimage
With my beautiful horses, Oscar and then Marco, I travelled along the Michael Mary ley line as the RWA’s exhibition was running. This 600-mile long energy line runs from near St. Michaels Mount in Cornwall to St. Margaret’s, Hopton, in Norfolk.
Every day of my journey I drew annotated line drawings on my iPad, these were uploaded daily to the RWA, printed out and mounted in the gallery.
I created a new work every day of the exhibition, despite the location, conditions or mood of my journey at the time.
EarthLine: The Genesis of a Dream
Release date: Winter 2020
The Earthline: Genesis of a Dream project was born from my journey and images. These inspired my dear friend, Micheal Canning, to write poems about the pilgrimage.
These poems have been put to music, in beautiful songs composed by singer/songwriter Susanna Waters, and music videos are currently being directed and filmed by Amelia White.
This album, along with the original pictures, poetry and music videos, is set to be released as a multi-disciplinary collection in late 2020.
The lived, changing, entertaining and occasionally challenging elements of my journey are all clear in my images…
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For the second part of my pilgrimage I swapped my beloved spotty horse Oscar, for native Dartmoor pony Marco.
Marco is small yet huge of heart, his patience and perseverance carried us both.
Together we continued in the cart.
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