I draw quite a bit. Whenever I travel one of my drawing books travels with me. In my studio work I plan and prepare using drawings (on paper or digitally) to plot the way ahead. Yet in we’ll over twenty years working in education I have never turned my attention towards my working environment in the form of drawing it.
A while back I decided it might be an interesting challenge to pick up, and so a series of drawings began. I’m still working on the series. I don’t think they are ever going to become more than a series of drawings; I’m not expecting to take them into a series of paintings. But they are starting to become something of a ‘complete set’ in my view.
In many ways they are fairly detached from the paintings I make. Although they do share a certain geometric quality. The architecture of the buildings l work in have plenty of interesting angles and lines. Maybe that’s what kept me interested while I have been drawing.
A full display of the series, online, and quite possibly within the school is likely to follow quite soon, but while I’m finishing things off, let me put this first on of the series out there as a taster
Peter Sansom 