The Apple She Gave Me
Charcoal, conté, pastel
120 x 75 cm, 1977

From Large Drawings (to 1992)

The items at right comprise works from 1968 through 2005. The media include oil, acrylic, pastel, chalk, ink, wash, and pencil.

In the first few weeks after leaving art school I started a group of sizable charcoal drawings in order to establish myself in my new studio (in Shenley Road) and to feel my way towards an uncertain future. Thus for the last thirty or so years, whenever I have been stuck or have dithered or floundered or come to an impasse in a particular work I have renewed myself by improvising on (increasingly) large sheets of paper.

From the essay Large Drawings (to 1992)

All that Fall
Benches
Benches: The Flower Before the Bench
Benches: After Benches: Tapestry
Benches: Benched Unabridged
The Cloak of Mercury
Colour Catalogues & Terminal Greys
Come & Go
Ein Deutsches Requiem
Flags
The Golden Section (After Raphael, etc.)
Large Drawings (to 1992)
Large Drawings (to 1997)
Ma Vlast
Music Drawings
Pictures from Postcards: Source Material
Pictures from Postcards: South Africa
Postcard Compositions
The Quest for Irma
Rima's Wall