I’ve now got settled into my new space. It is a really odd feeling. Digswell had become my everyday routine. Not doing the familiar drive along the windy back roads to Welwyn seems the strangest part. That route literally feels engrained in my mind, like every time I did it, it carved out a deeper and deeper physical groove through my mind.
So now I have a new winding road to use every morning and this one is particularly wibbly wobbly indeed. It’s well and truly out in the sticks. I spent my first afternoon alone there today and was extremely apprehensive when I arrived. I had got it into my mind that there could be the possibility that I might not be able to do any work there, like it would have the wrong feng shui or something like that and any creativity would seize up from the moment I crossed the threshold. I had a really restless night last night with this concern playing on my mind.
Today though it’s fine, actually it felt really good. For the first time in ages I have a desk looking out over a grassy meadow. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a studio with a view…in fact on consideration I never have. I don’t think I’ve ever worked in such a quiet space before either. I am looking forward now to getting into the routine of it and making it feel like my own.
Art work wise, Christmas has not been a very productive time for me, although this I anticipated. I actually feel pretty invigorated by the break from it all and am keen to get on. I’ve looked back over the stripped down drawings I did of car park stair wells today and can see many aspects about them that I want to pursue. I’m heading back out with the camera very soon.
Another thing on my mind, before Christmas, I asked a fellow artist to draw a space she knew reasonably well but couldn’t see at the time, on an A4 piece of paper. The only brief was that she draw it however she wanted but how she thought best communicated the space to someone else. I would really like to see how others approach this too. If anyone would like to do it for me here I would be forever grateful! Rules are no words and just pencil and A4 paper, and it can be anywhere you like and just a quick drawing/sketch. If you can do one you can email it to me at [email protected] and I would be really interested to see it.
