'Never throw out a sketchbook', one of the best pieces of advice I received in my final years at Art College. Now they take up a substantial space in my studio!
One of the key features of my work over the last twenty five years or so is the importance of the sketchbook to my work. Apart from the life-long habit of always having a notebook with me at all times, sketchbooks are one of the most well used tools in my studio.
The bookshelves in my studios contain an archive of sketchbooks dating back to 1988 and my post-graduate years at Art School. Notes, landscape and seascape sketches, and working drawings for assemblages fill the pages, plus a variety of photographs, clippings, postcards and random aide-memoires make up the rest.
