I have travelled a fair amount both as a tourist and for work but it's only since late 1998 that I have drawn specific landscapes from real places. I made the first ones from photos I took on the way to do a print project in Darwin. I drew an image of Alice Springs airport and one of the Sydney Opera House, drawn from across the bay where I had been installing a sculpture. I later used photos from previous trips, searching through old cardboard boxes in the basement. I've always tended to photograph anything that interested me, what have you got to loose? But i became more focused and had an idea of the kind of view I could draw. I realized that this was potentially limiting and determined to photograph anything that caught my interest. I stopped to photograph piles of logs and rock cliff faces as well as the usual distant views. I also took a lot of shots of the water, but this was not something new for me
I have travelled a fair amount both as a tourist and for work but it's only since late 1998 that I have drawn specific landscapes from real places. I made the first ones from photos I took on the way to do a print project in Darwin. I drew an image of Alice Springs airport and one of the Sydney Opera House, drawn from across the bay where I had been installing a sculpture. I later used photos from previous trips, searching through old cardboard boxes in the basement. I've always tended to photograph anything that interested me, what have you got to loose? But i became more focused and had an idea of the kind of view I could draw. I realized that this was potentially limiting and determined to photograph anything that caught my interest. I stopped to photograph piles of logs and rock cliff faces as well as the usual distant views. I also took a lot of shots of the water, but this was not something new for me
