About the Notations Drawings

I found some vintage sheet music in a charity shop being sold off very cheaply as the books had been broken up.

The music was stored in the studio for some years until I came across them and used them as a surface for making drawings. Years before I’d worked with grid structures and I liked the grid elements of the music sheets, I also liked the idea of notations and the two seemed to marry up well. I made the drawings in a similar time frame to the Score drawings.

Many of the paintings I was making were really large, these drawings were a counterbalance to those. While even the large paintings can be intimate, the size of these drawings were a counter- balance to the larger work.

As many of my paintings were quite sizable, these drawings served as a contrast to the large scale of my other works. Despite the intimacy inherent in even the largest paintings, these drawings provided a counterbalance to the magnitude of my primary studio work.