I have been building a collection of busy imaginary worlds of mostly organic shapes, peculiar architecture and curious pattern work all heavily based within surrealism.
The figure drawings are just so, as to invite you to immerse yourself in their world as they are… small, humble, exploratory beings, living within vast lands of richness, chaos and complexities.
Although the idea came to me and I liked the style of stick figures within these drawings, they are probably unknowingly a small nod to L.S Lowry, as among many artists, his work caught my eye from a young age. I like the anonymity of Lowry’s figures within his paintings. They convey the vastness of populations within cities, existing among countless others just like you, stirring feelings of both community and alienation.
My figures, I made more alien-like and with less personal character than Lowry’s figures, a more extensive reminder of that we are all primarily, beings of the same human race and we could endeavour to emotionally and physically exist with this in mind.
I’m also an admirer of M.C Escher’s works and the illusions he creates within his architectural designs. I am now beginning to enjoy and develop purposefully creating an element of optical illusion within these worlds and the buildings that come to emerge within them. Varying architecture is something I am continually exploring with this work, as I seem to gravitate towards buildings and brickwork as a focal element. A building structure or a careful doodle is often my starting point for each imaginary world and I see where my pen takes me around that, sometimes with an idea in mind, but often not.
