St Petersburg

Two more, again, from a small sketchbook, on the spot. Shapes. Functional, industrial, fit for purpose but very mysterious.

St Petersburg

The Kazzam Cathedral. Wonderful inside and out. Modelled on the Vatican. A forest of stone columns.

St Petersburg

A building that intrigued me increasingly, just beside the Church Over the Spilled Blood. Not sure what its function was, market place, stables? I walked around it and drew it from all angles. A bigger, more considered drawing may emerge.

St Petersburg

Two drawings done early in the morning, people were rushing past me on their way to work. The Church Over the Spilled Blood.

Drawings from St Petersburg

All these drawings were done on the spot and are in a small red sketchbook. This was drawn when I was waiting for a boat ride to begin. Looking up into some trees, the light shining behind them.

The British Museum

A selection of small (A5) sketchbook drawings done in the British Museum, in pencil. The British Museum is a treasure trove. A cultural storehouse. I value the material, handled quality of the objects. An interconnectivity between culture and practice. Material is experience, it is a medium by which we can remember. Objects can be marked by what they witness. Objects are signposts, can objects can change their meaning as history changes around them?

I Pizzini

Each pizzini has a tiny piece of adhesive on the back. I can take the drawings out of the packet and arrange and rearrange then how I like....meanings and connections can be made, or it can be a random collection of images.