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Drawing has meaning

Writer: Sarah Moncrieff
Sarah Moncrieff
Apr 6, 2018
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I am enjoying Andrew Marr’s “A short book about Drawing” documenting his love of drawing and how it helped him recover following his stroke. Like Marr I agree that “drawing has meaning, it immerses you freshly in the planet you were born on”. When I teach I feel real satisfaction when my students start returning after a few weeks of classes with me to say “I look at everything differently now”. It is only when we start to think about committing what we see to paper that we really take the time to stop and look properly. Otherwise we are often too busy, rushing past the scene, engrossed in conversations and digital communications.


Marr goes on to say drawing “will help you see the hidden patterns all around you, and make you a discriminating lover of landscapes, faces and mundane objects”. He feels drawing “becomes an education and it is about striving to be more fully human”. These are the aspects that underpin my work, both the practise of drawing itself, in which you have to observe and record, and also the act of seeking out the mundane in our daily life and presenting it to the world. Perhaps it is through this act that I help to ground myself in my reality and ask my viewers to look at their daily life in a different way.


'Building Site'

In my drawing “Building Site” I was interested in how construction sites make up part of our daily visual experience across so many parts of the country. After a while, we probably walk past without even noticing them anymore, but I like what Marr refers to as the hidden patterns, the strong verticals and horizontals and all the awkward angles. In this drawing I extracted some of the shapes and lines I saw and emphasised them and to me the drawing has a solitary quality that these sites have when empty and abandoned at night.


 
 
 

4 Comments


urenxu8m6b
Sep 06

Absolutely love the atmosphere and texture in your work—there’s such a calm, thoughtful quality to it. The way you capture light and movement feels incredibly natural and immersive. Golisimo is an unexpected word to pair with art, but somehow it adds a memorable twist to the conversation.

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tupyxecon
Sep 01

면접 과정에서 질문을 망설이지 않고 구체적인 근무 밤알바 조건에 대해 신중히 묻는 태도는 전문성을 보여줍니다. 궁금한 점은 사전에 확실히 해소하는 것이 안전합니다.

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tupyxecon
Aug 24

 외부 활동을 오래 한 날에는 몸이 쉽게 지치는데 편안한 공간에서 관리받으니 피로를 잠시 내려놓을 수 있었습니다. 오산출장마사지는 이동 시간을 줄이고 원하는 일정에 맞출 수 있어 휴식이 필요한 날 간편하게 활용하기 좋은 서비스였어요.

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tupyxecon
Jul 07

이동 시간을 줄일 수 있어 매우 서울출장마사지  효율적이었습니다. 오산출장마사지 서비스는 바쁜 일정 속에서도 편안하게 받을 수 있고 관리 품질도 뛰어나 만족했습니다.

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