Original artwork description:

This is a Charcoal and Pastel on Paper version of an Ink Drawing I originally made in San Chong in 2002/03 during my second year in Taiwan. At the time of drawing the original I had just returned to Taiwan and would spend a lot of time exploring my new area, walking in the local parks to see what interesting things I could find. Taiwan has many of these beautiful Banyan Fig Trees that have exposed over-ground roots that spread out across the ground creating amazing snake like shapes and angles as they seek water and stability. These trees still fascinate me and this particular one was the first that I ever drew. The original drawing was done in blue pen on a brown paper pad and I drew it “en plein air” over a number of evenings in a park near my apartment. This was started in late summer and I drew in the evenings as I liked the shadows and it was too hot to draw outside in the daytime. The original image has since been used as T-Shirt design for a Taiwanese company called Cognoscenti and I always wanted to other versions of it in other materials. Eventually, five years later I created this Charcoal and Pastel on Fabriano Paper version of the image in my studio. I used Charcoal to show the Banyan Tree and added green Pastel to show the fresh new shoots that were growing up through the spaces in between the limbs of the tree. The paper was attached to the wall with a brown masking tape that has actually become part of the full picture as I drew to the very edges of the tape in areas. In the cropped version of the drawing you cannot see this part, but there are other versions showing this and it has the option of including those areas or cropping when framing. I personally like the contrast of the brown edges but cropped them in this image because when I photographed the large-scale drawing the edges appeared not to look straight (due to my camera angle).
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Materials used:

Charcoal and Pastel on Fabriano Paper

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