COLLECTOR PREVIEW: GOUACHE DRAWINGS

Over the past few months I’ve been working on a group of gouache drawings on paper, made quickly and directly from instinct and memory.

These works sit at a particular moment in my practice, just before a shift. In the coming weeks I’ll be in Portugal on a residency, developing larger, more experimental pieces in a big studio there that will push this language further. This group feels like the point of departure.

The drawings are driven by line - used as a way of holding weight, pressure and emotion. I’ve been working faster, allowing less time for correction, which brings a greater sense of risk and immediacy into the work. Figures emerge through exaggerated gesture, often unstable, stretched or compressed, hovering between control and collapse.

There’s a tension I’m interested in - between something theatrical or performative, and something more internal, almost involuntary. At times the figures feel composed, even stylised; at others they seem to slip out of that control.

Colour is used simply but deliberately - sometimes as surface, sometimes as an emotional charge within the image.

Each drawing is unique. This is a small, focused release, offered ahead of the residency. The works are available directly here before being released more widely.