I spent the best part of the beginning of the month refining ‘woolgathering’ and intermittently thinking it was finished and that I needed to do more to it. By the end of the month it looked like this, but I’ve decided I need to add another scene and I’ve refined the transitions. Then I move on to the Tickhill Road Drawings.

Acrobats August 4th 2025

I made this drawing after I’d completed the acrobat sculpture and then realised I didn’t really need it for the whole set up.

After about ten days of faffing about I looked out some old sketchbooks to begin a new project.

Tickhill Road Garden sketchbook

These sketches were made around late 2018 early 2019.

Tickhill Road Drawings

Tickhill Road drawings process

Tickhill Road drawings process

They’re all of the Tickhill Road garden and are worked in pairs. The very loose first drawing is mono printed to the other sheet of paper and then both are pinned to the wall to work in tandem.

TR_28/02/2019_[25/08/2025]_one

TR_28/02/2019_[25/08/2025]_two

The pair literally reflect each other but also complement each other but the main reason for mono printing is for the quality it gives to the mark on the paper. In most of these the pair are one on cartridge paper and one, slightly smaller on watercolour paper.

TR_28/02/2019_[25/08/2025]_three

TR_28/02/2019_[25/08/2025]_four

The next phase of this project is to transform some of the Tickhill Road drawings into 3d to recreate the garden on as close to full scale as possible. I’ve started some maquettes without much success.

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As well as the sculptures being at this stage difficult to realise some of the drawings are very loose.

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TR_05/12/18_[20/08/25]_two

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So this months post is late and less precise than I would like because I’m in that in between state waiting for a project to coalesce. In addition to the earlier sketches in the gif above I’m looking at a sketchbook I made of the two trees at the bus stop near my house.

Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day;

The August drawings can be seen here

…and the July images here

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