Well the exhibition is up, I completed all of the drawings and drawings on objects that I had set out to do and Rachael in the end achieved some very satisfactory and thoughtful photography. I tried three larger drawings with areas of line only to emphasis parts of the pieces and this from looking at the work of Patrick Caulfield, although the stage of experimenting with the drawings stops with this show. I also tried some small works, the detail of the woven pencil is not really possible here.
Rachael’s photographs give the viewer a possible history of the house, taken from her own family, I have been interested in the textures and nostalgic feel to them and maybe this will feed into my drawings. Altogether, I feel that our work ties in very nicely, even though the mediums are apart from one another. We will get together at some point and talk over how and what we have achieved through this collaboration, positive results all round. It would have been nice to have been able to have more time to talk, but with Rachael’s schedule in schools and so on this was difficult. There is an agreement, however, that we did feel what the other was about and was ‘in tune in absence’.
It remains to be seen what feed-back we have, I certainly have had time to try to realise a slightly different approach to a domestic interior, away from my own home and those others more intimately known. It has allowed me to reassess my pevious drawings and how and what to try to feed into them from now on.
