Gouache and pencil on graph paper

42 x 29.7cm

2025

This ongoing series of gouache and pencil drawings on graph paper, begun in 2020, is inspired by being distracted while watching Netflix films and TV series by the dazzling cinematic effects of sparkling lights seen out of apartment windows, sheer curtains blowing in a breeze, trees and shrubs glimpsed out of half open window blinds. I make a line drawing with colour notes in a few seconds flat, as reference. Later I draw out the ensuing design on graph paper and add gouache paint.

The colour is mainly determined by memory and instinct. I like the fact that the graph paper encourages abstraction simply because of its pre-existing structured format. There’s something meditative in the process – the drawing element is quick, but the application of colour is slow and painstaking. In a way it represents the way my mind works, constantly visually alert and thinking about how I can represent what I see around me, sometimes at the expense of narrative thread.