The Art Planning Room, Aoyama, Toyko   2006

Two Person Show with John France

Our joint interests lie in an exploration of contemporary themes and methods in drawing.   We share a passion for drawing that informs our individual and collective research activity as artists and have sought exchanges ideas and practice from differing cultural perspectives. This takes places through discourse in person and extended by email and in the context of the exhibition form.   'Simple as Breathing' is taken from Vincent Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, in which he describes his perspectives on Japanese art from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

My own work focuses on reflections and interpretations of physical and emotional responses to landscape, often in locations away from the UK, but until now exclusively across Europe with one excursion into Asia (if we see Russia as part of Asia not Europe).   This exchange and dialogue is an opportunity to extend the content of my research into the Far East.

My work has developed significantly over the past year as recently I have begun to photograph drawings and incorporate my photographs into these reproductions of drawings that are then reprinted and manipulated in Photoshop. The Waterfall images, both the digital prints and the drawings incorporating photographs and reproductions, are some of the initial results of this activity.

	Waterfall One Digital Print/Drawing
	Waterfall Two Drawing/Digital Print
	Waterfall Three Digital Print/Drawing
	Waterfall Four Digital Print/Drawing
	Waterfall Five Digital Print/Drawing