Sunday Morning, (2008-9) was a five metre long scroll drawing created over two months. Every Sunday morning a local café owner kindly allowed me to sit upstairs in the function room so that I could draw the view from the same window. Western Road (2009), was a pencil and mixed media drawing on a four metre long roll of tracing paper, created over a period of three days from my art studio window above an urban high street.
In these drawings, I wanted to capture movement and the passing of time, and record my perceptions of the different views of the street below. I depicted this through layering and fragmenting imagery to reflect my changing line of vision, people passing, traffic rushing, thoughts, and sounds.
My use of long reels of paper was inspired by Japanese scroll paintings, with their depictions of characters in scenes from everyday-life, through use of delicate linear mark-making, poetic script, and panels depicting unfolding narratives.