‘Home panorama – Towards Spring’, is part of the series of drawings made within my north London home during the pandemic. My flat is relativity small so the drawing, which measures over three meters in length, was made with four separate sheets of A1 sized paper. Drawn over several weeks, it’s literally a journey; I began with the far left panel and moved through my flat, little by little from left to right, as I drew. This meant my viewpoint continuously shifted, and the garden with the leylandii growing within it has been drawn twice, so the garden fence is seen from both sides, as I moved from the window to the left of the bookshelf to that on the right.

As I drew, the solid boundary between interior and exterior space felt increasingly transient, a thin membrane between myself and the exterior world. My living space felt as though it were part of a network of interconnected spaces ranging over the entire city. And, when drawing the books on their shelves, glimpses of activity in the city spaces beyond my windows kept catching my eye: a delivery person searching for an address, the sun catching a building, an advertising airship flying by, for example. I wanted to draw the way my mind was flitting between interior and exterior space, and so drew these glimpses of external activity onto the book covers, in turn increasing the sensation of porous boundaries and two-way flow of space between interior and exterior.

Scroll down to see close ups of each of the four panels which combine to create ‘Home panorama -Towards Spring’….

See the whole of ‘Home Panorama - Towards Spring’ and ‘Studio Panorama - Gull’s Journey’ here