In part three of 10 objects from the archive of objects found in my dad’s house, I’d like to offer this. After the tentative steps of the Henry Hudson picture I worked on two other school projects before setting to work on this large piece, which proved to be the most experimental and successful of my school drawings in pure pen and ink. It was drawn from a randomly selected photo reference using a multi coloured pen and ink line technique – on the face and hat I used three s

Number 2 in the discoveries made at my dad’s house from long hidden archives of my work. In my wildest dreams I never thought I’d ever see this picture again, but there it was, in my dad’s loft, warts and all, the very first drawing I ever attempted in pen and ink, from 1975, aged 16. Prior to this drawing I’d worked steadily but unassumedly at school on assigned projects. It was acknowledged that I was “good at art”, but this was post modernist, late hippy mid 1970’s, most o