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I love to draw
I make drawings as a diary of my life. In a style similar to a graphic novel they are an evolving narrative self portrait, often using the form of drawings and texts. Over the years there are repeated themes, situations, and settings. In making these drawings I am watching how life repeats and alters, changes, develops, and stays the same. In drawing myself I become an observer of my world. In carefully drawing a photograph, I make a moment significant; in the process it may become heavy with pathos, or irony, or self-knowledge.Even drawings of buildings- shown in my studies of synagogues, churches and law courts- are equally personal. They are sacred environments or architecturally designated spaces of introspection, and self awareness.
The drawings of West Hampstead Synagogue are a series of self portraits symbolized through a building. Whilst reworking with my pencil and pen I describe an ongoing relationship with my faith and self, referencing occasions when I have attended services, marked important family events and celebrated religious festivals. Finally those same cavernous spaces of the synagogue reference other religious buildings, alluding to how moments that are particular and individual to ourselves, like my diary drawings, can have greater universal reference.
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