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Drawing and photography are central to my practice. Both make pressing - if sometimes fictitious - claims to the capture of lost moments.




04/02/2011

Kalk Bay






Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite in Brighton sketchbook. 




03/02/2011

Don't dawdle, it's hot!

Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




Bathers


Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




Penguins on the beach

I'm still engaged in the endless and boring task of scanning in drawings, which I suppose is a good thing, since I haven't had time to make any drawings over the past week or so.



Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




01/02/2011

This five-year old boy directed and performed in a play in the garden on new year's day... The props were interesting, especially a pair of patterned underpants used as a hat.
Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




31/01/2011

Wearing my other hat

Coming soon from Manchester University Press, around mid February... this promises to replace Stig Larsson on the page-turner best-seller list...



Humans and dogs on beach


Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook. 



30/01/2011

Same view, different times

Well, same-ish view, Kommetjie beach from a particular bench on the boardwalk for the last three, and actually on the beach in the first spread. I've always loved the almost-repetition of the almost-the-same. It's the underlying minimalism of my not very minimalist work...


Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.



Brush markers and watercolour in Windsor and Newton spiral-bound sketchbook.