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I open my sketchbook to the first page and take either a pencil or ink pen ready to make the first drawing. My mind reflects on the day and the subjects I have encountered – people living on the streets. Sometimes my recollections are specific, sometimes more general and abstract. Putting pen to paper the marks come first, having still not figured out the relationship or tapestry of the marks I’m making.

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How the first drawing connects to the next is a valuable aspect of development and I spend a couple of hours or most of the day going from one sketch to the next: the heads emerge, sometimes only just appearing, at other times a precise character evolves. They are like chapters of a book, the pages written in consecutive order; a single face on a single page, yet they’re all connected as a whole environment, or people.

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Taking a small lump of plaster in my left hand and holding a chisel fairly near the tip with my right, I begin carving by candle light. As the fragments fall, something emerges . . . weaving both imagination and memory towards the point where the plaster speaks and becomes an object of communion.

Drawing upon reflection one hour after the encounter means there’s just enough image residue to use, just enough memory fragments to build a personality .

Allowing the experience from life to ‘marinade’ in this way means the dominant, sometimes overwhelming details of life have an opportunity to settle or soften, allowing something different to come through; a doorway perhaps for the metaphysical, even spiritual to pass within this stretch of creative no-man’s land lying somewhere between life, memory and imagination.

Spending time observing each person – often in the same pose sitting or sleeping – drawing their form without knowledge of their life story, their merits or failures, I encounter a sense of reverence, simply being in the presence of a creation of God, however small the life within the social echelons of modern prosperity. The kernel of life is raw, more real somehow without the element of ownership.

Having made various drawings over a series of hours, I return to my room. I place my pen, brush and inkpot on the bedside table, sit on the bed and sketch down not just memories from the day’s visual journey but my emotional interpretation of the lives of the homeless I’ve encountered.  The poignancy which emerges within these tiny sketches surprises me. The delicate lines become a visual metaphor for the vulnerable life that is before me.  The sketchbook size itself being small makes you come close to the drawing . . .  you want to move towards the subject.

Imagination itself need not merely represent the realm of the unreal. Imagination can be a powerful tool to harness experience for the expression of truth.

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The amputee. Only glimpsed for a moment in the crowd, but his face became the source of inspiration for a number of paintings and sculptures. Brushed Ink on Paper

Carved head approx. 8 cm; one of my favourite methods of modelling. Plaster is so immediate it can be formed and rebuilt very quickly. Carved from memory in the studio by candle light .  Plaster

Tents, Mayfair. Graphite on paper