Lucy Austin
For me Drawing is the beginning of the work. Each morning I have been using black ink and a dip pen on paper. Here there is nowhere to hide and changing your mind is difficult. In this work I have tried not to repeat myself making each drawing unique. It's bit like setting a puzzle to keep in practice........and then somehow the lines draw me in and I can see a new possibility. Sometimes later on perhaps a year or so, I add white gesso which obscures parts of the image, but it also faintly leaves a trace of marks underneath. I like that evidence of thinking, transformation and time. The drawings are strange, they are a bit like creatures or something remembered from a dream.
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