book page drawings gallery...all these drawings are for sale as limited edition prints at 100 euros each ( each one is quality printed and then reworked and embellished by hand making each image unique )...please contact me for details
For the past couple of years I’ve been making poems/drawings from old (and pretty outdated by todays standards) book pages from my late mother’s torn and tired collection. I think I like/need the constraint of an already worked on page...
I begin by creating (an almost)fresh white page with paint, working around the elements and words I choose to retain. Both text and drawings use the blackout (or whiteout in most cases) technique; I change nothing in the text except to reorder the words by erasure, and do the same for the images which I rework over several subsequent layers.
Then I bring in colour, doodling around then embellishing the pages with their bits of text and 'salvaged' monochrome images (I have accepted to transgress the taboo of drawing in/on the revered ‘book’ that every child experiences!) slowly making them into something that I consider harmonious and new. I often find myself bringing elements relegated to the background into the foreground, and dare to work with the iconic images of madonnas, angels and virgins, somehow wishing to restore/represent them to our contemporary consciousness as well as propose the possibility for them to become actors of their own image, retroactively.
I see the works as versions, re-visions, engaged in the work of salvaging something from the page before they are completely lost. I version versions of versions, in an ongoing work of perpetual variation that travels further and further from source ( yet is always a result of that source) I love to be surprised by what can emerge, the defamiliarisation of language that happens and chance image that can occur.
I frame, show and sell these re-visions which are are reproduced in limited series of 10 examples per variation. Here's a selection of the latest ones...