Chocolate, Chocolate Chip
29" x 22"
charcoal and pastel drawing
Elegant cake boxes and stripy bakery string, with empty chocolate muffin wrappers - oh yummy
Sweet and Sour
19" X 26"
charcoal and pastel drawing
An empty container of sauce casts a soft orange shadow on an elegant Chinese noodle container
Original Artwork : SOLD
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Fortune
29" x 22"
charcoal and pastel drawing
Ominous shadows loom in the background, adding drama to my broken fortune cookie
Saved You One
22" x 30"
charcoal and pastel drawing
More delicious than the purple box;
more scrumptious than the palest green satin ribbon;
Behold! - The Last Chocolate in the Box
(no fighting)
Passion
13" x 11"
charcoal and pastel drawing
The very stubby end of my favorite purple color pencil
Harold loved his purple crayon too - oh the places it took him...
Original Artwork : SOLD
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Fallen
11" x 10.5"
charcoal drawing
A faithful comrade in times of need, this corkscrew now lies broken and discarded
Original Artwork : SOLD
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Eggbox
15" x 23"
charcoal drawing
The last few eggshells and the empty plastic egg box make a dramatic end to lunch
Dippy Eggs and Soldiers
16" x 12"
charcoal and pastel
There is something elegantly simple about a soft boiled egg for lunch. It doesn’t take a bunch of elaborate preparation; it’s a quick shot of protein to sustain that “big push” through the afternoon slump, but most of all it stirs a childlike joy in being allowed to play with my food
Nourishment for body and soul
Original Charcoal Drawing : SOLD
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The Last of the Marmalade
17" x 23"
charcoal, pastel and chalk drawing
The end of the jar - a great excuse to pile the toast with as much marmalade as it can hold
The Sticky End
18" x 8.5"
charcoal and pastel
Another Cup of Tea
11" x 10.5"
charcoal and chalk drawing
A teaspoon balances on top of a pile of squashed teabags. How about a nice cup of tea and a sit down?
Original Drawing : SOLD
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Peel
11" x 11"
charcoal
Fries to Go
18" X 12"
charcoal and pastel drawing
Large coke and fries to go, sometimes I can't resist.
Now that's my kind of picnic
Fried Chicken Sunday
11" x 12"
charcoal and pastel
Original Charcoal Drawing : SOLD
Sprouting Red
18" x 14"
charcoal and pastel
Original Charcoal & Pastel Drawing : SOLD
eCommerce
17" x 23"
charcoal and pastel
Spudnik
14" x 10"
charcoal drawing
Old potatoes, forgotten in the vegetable cupboard, have sprouted into funky alien beings
Original charcoal drawing : SOLD
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Slurp
18" x 23"
charcoal and pastel drawing
Watermelon rind, chopped and stacked, takes on a sculptural delight. Whilst the cool pink flesh sets up a juicy contrast with the acid green highlights in the skin
Cored
18" x 24"
charcoal and pastel drawing
Juicy warm orange pastel makes this pineapple hull come alive, and sets the taste buds tingling
Strawberry Heart
17" x 23"
charcoal and pastel
Crumbs!
22" x 16"
charcoal and pastel
Empty
10" x 7"
charcoal drawing
Toilet paper shreds cling to the inner cardboard tube
The end of the roll
Busted
17" x 23"
charcoal and pastel
Happy Meal
20" x 28"
charcoal
Making An Effort
16" x 12"
charcoal and pastel
Carbon Footprints
This is my carbon footprint. What does it tell you about me?
What will yours say about you?
These are the things that will show them how we lived.
The left-overs from my life cataloged and documented in larger than life charcoal still life drawings. From the dusty darkness a strange self-portrait emerges – broken glass, empty boxes, discarded plastic.
We are what we eat? To the archaeologist, we are what we throw away afterwards.
Finding each new piece of trash was like unearthing treasures, conserving, preserving and consecrating my ephemeral (and not so ephemeral) daily detritus. Paying attention to the discarded; things useless and broken; things previous never really seen or looked at or even thought about. Discarded without a thought.
As I stroke the soft charcoal across the paper, enveloping the artifact, the image forms where the charcoal isn’t.
A footprint in the dust. Fragments of faded pastel, like a hand-colored photograph, speak of times past.
Although, not so long past. Eggshells from breakfast, broken yet perfect; my favorite chocolate, chocolate chip muffins, seduced by the elegant packaging; fast food detritus, irrefutable evidence of nutritional misdemeanors and bad planning.