Felt Drawing, 2022. Shown at Definitions of Drawing, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, curated by Court Spencer, 2023; The Hide Installation and Sculpture Show, Stroud, 2025.
Felt, acrylic paint.

Working instinctively with a piece of scrap industrial felt, I used acrylic paint to paint shapes in sequence using a colour palette limited to five colours. I played with the imperfections of painting on a woollen fabric, with some areas densely rendered, and others more patchy, like the gradated mark making of a colour pencil drawing. The felt strip can become a roll, snake up the wall, scroll into an architectural feature, or wiggle through the space; suggestive of the potential in a stop motion animation.

Felt Drawing explores the intersection between drawing and sculpture; working between the knowable linear and geometric forms and the wobbly indexical mark.

Pillars, 2022. Shown at Definitions of Drawing, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, curated by Court Spencer, 2023
Felt, oil pastel and preliminary sketch in pencil and oil pastel on paper.

A sketch for a sculptural piece, Pillars shows the direct role of drawing in the process of making objects. The sculptural outcome of Pillars started with two pieces of rolled up scrap industrial felt, the sketch plots how oil pastel marks might be placed upon the felt. The immediacy of a quick sketch is often lost in a final artwork, but the roughness of the pastel scribbles on the felt means the sculpture manages to retain some of the energy of the sketch. Working quickly and pressing the pastel hard onto the felt caused loss of sensation in the index finger of my dominant left hand for 3 months following its making.