‘Edge of the Storm’ has a new home.

‘Edge of the Storm’, graphite on paper, 21 x 119 cm, 2022

I’m delighted my panoramic drawing ‘Edge of the Storm’ has been sold and is off to a new home.

I began the drawing in the afternoon on 18th February 2022. Earlier that day, I’d been delivering a drawing workshop focussing on Leon Kossoff for the Courtauld Institute of Art’s Young People’s Programme. I was grateful to be teaching online, from home, as Storm Eunice was raging outside. The internet connection held up, but the lights kept flickering and, with the wind howling and building creaking, it sounded as if I were on-board a ship….

Glued to my laptop screen, I couldn’t see what was happening outside. But, as soon as I’d finished teaching, I looked out of the window and began drawing whilst Eunice was still whirling debris through the air. As time passed, I continued to draw from left to right, adding sheets of paper as I went, drawing the gradual return of calm to my local area as the storm, thankfully, finally subsided.