This is something I brought with me from Cardiff. Usually I don’t like adding lots of things over a long period of time to one canvas or paper, but I’m treating this as more of a large illustration that I just want to build up. The original charcoal markings on the canvas were made during a performance I did about two years ago! I wonder what this will look like in another two years…

These are studies made in euston and Waterloo station. The main concern in these drawings is to capture the movement of people in space and time. There is a figurative apsect to these drawings that I don’t mind and there is also a more diagramatic study. in all these drawings I have tried to keep the line loose and free. Some elements of the background have been sketched in as a framework.

These pen and ink images I have in my sketchbook. The shading was done in just a few brush strokes. My flatmate Patrick lent me a Japanese Sum-i book (written in German), so I did some experiments. I love Japanese art in many forms from Edo period woodcuts to modern day Manga, the craftsmanship of the line is inspiring.

The second sketch was a precursor to the first. I like this one because it has more of its own strange feeling and doesn’t follow natural laws. This character gives it a little more life. I tried my best not to just copy a Hokusai wave and do something different, but part of me also couldn’t resist mimicking some of those beautiful shapes.

More studies of people in waterloo station. I drew people standing, waiting and I also drew people moving past me and going up and down an escalator.

I made the most of the bank holiday yesterday and went out sketching. I did some street studies (buses kept parking in front of me! I sat in the sun outside Benjy’s on Oxford street and made this sketch, along with a large heart-attack style coffee), some people studies and more studies of people moving. I’m trying to get more of a loose feel to these freehand sketches in contrast to the ‘tight’ illustration work I have been doing for Spiral Productions.