Sketchbooks

This is the first post in a new blog that will enable me to document and share the processes involved in the development of my work during this 4 month sabbatical (6 months including the summer break)

Started to use my sketchbooks working on top of drawings made waiting in airports or on holiday sitting in cafes - there are layers of gel medium transfers of photographic images and painted tromp l'oeil torn paper edges and a small snail shell - will continue to use the sketchbooks for collage and simulated collage with 'archeological' layers of marks made in different times and spaces superimposed. Most of this work is acrylic, ink and pencil with gel medium transfers and there is no real chronology in the sequence of the pages because I work back into and on top of previous notes and sketches made sometimes months earlier.