Original artwork description:

This is a drawing of a rock found during a walk around the town of Belalcazar in Spain. I was staying at the Convento de Santa Clara on an artist residency during June and July 2014.

During my time here I would spend hours walking in the landscape, exploring the local area. I would collect objects from the landscape to draw or paint back at the convent. This rock was found during one of my walks and brough back to the studio to draw as I wanted to record the effects of weathering on the rock. It interested me that this rock had been originally cut by humans and then found its way into the landscape and sucumb to the effects of weathering.

The image records the marks made by the weather and how one perceives an object through spending time with the object over a period of hours, recording the movement of light and shadow and how my mind perceived the object whilst drawing it. This image works in tandem with the sculpture drawn in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Again I have used a BIC biro to draw the image, using an everyday item to record the rock.

Materials used:

BIC biro on Cartridge Paper

Tags:

#beach scene #drawing #rock #spain #observation #biro #evidence #bic biro #recording #belalcazar #evidence-based art #inkpen