Abiding changes

Abstract

Abstract Abiding changes explores transitions in drawing practice produced by a professional artist/illustrator over a lifetime of work. It is a description of shifting ideas on the process and manufacture of drawing whilst managing work that is both an act of communication on a public platform and private programme of personal developmental initiatives. The paper examines means used to alter methods of working and possibly make ‘better’ practice to improve eloquence of expression. Writing on this subject explores the fluid nature of drawing and its ability to invent responses that question familiar modes of expression with unfamiliar actions in response to a changing context for work. The text explores the aesthetic evolution of particular ideas such as psychotropic drawing and the effects of risk on work. It describes efforts to shift practice from carefully rendered drawing to fast sketching ideas from measured notation to doodle responses, rediscovering drawing from nature and the risk of improvised reactions in constructed description.