Drawing is central to my art practice. Complimentary to my oil painting work, drawing allows me to explore my ideas in greater depth and in ways specific to the form. In my work, I translate photos of the built environment and its inhabitants into these traditional media to reveal their latent visual complexity, capturing moments of the sublime in the everyday. The use of motion blur serves as an ongoing metaphor for the nature of memory and our contemporary experience of the world, offering fleeting fragments of observation which oscillate between realism and abstraction. The softness of charcoal allows me to capture the subtleties of light, form and atmosphere which render the image familiar but just out of reach. Charcoal’s unique qualities demand the slow and considered observation of the reference imagery - a practice which has enriched the material and conceptual rigour of my work.