Building 77, 2022– ongoing

After the pandemic, I wanted a studio which had an aerial, industrial view to draw from. As luck would have it, just at that moment, ArtHub studios took over three floors of Building 77 in Westminster Industrial Estate behind the Thames Barrier. I was fortunate to be able to take on a studio on the fifth-floor, which has an endlessly fascinating view: directly beneath my studio window a recycling facility sorts and crushes paper and other waste; large scale printers work within vast, new warehouses, older warehouses crumble, their decaying roofs home for nesting gulls and plant life. To the left, the Thames and the Tate & Lyle factory, with Woolwich and wind turbines on the distant horizon. To the right, residential infrastructure and the wooded Maryon Park, above it all a vast sweep of sky. Each of these areas is dense with activity and the drawings I am making from my fifth-floor window chart my visual journeys through this ever-changing landscape, recording the life I observe taking place as I draw.

Drawings from this series have been exhibited in the Summer Exhibition 2024, Royal Academy London; Fight, Flight or Freeze, Kafka Projects at Pictorem Gallery, 2024 and within Wayfaring, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, 2023 (solo show).

This series also includes the large format (3 metre) panoramic drawing ‘Studio Panorama – Gull’s Journey’

Click on each thumbnail for a closer look at a selection of drawings from the Building 77 series …