My garden design drawings & illustrations
bespoke hand drawn garden designs
I skived off work on Friday to see Grayson Perry
I’ve always loved old maps – particularly the illustrated ones of London & the Thames. My parents had a copy of one with ‘fluvius’ written through the water – it was enlarged & filled a large part of a wall in their bedroom but the detail was still small & just wonderful. When I first saw Map Of Days by Grayson Perry it reminded me so much of that image but this perhaps was even better. The detail, word play & humour in it was just brilliant. It was so intriguing I really wanted to see more. I have always …
My love for drawing & illustrating my garden designs
Drawing is my passion & I find it so much more satisfying to sketch out all my ideas on my board than on a CAD system (I do have that too however). I create doodles & work on an A2 sketch pad & tracing paper over the top of a printed site survey to get a proper sense of space, scale & what’s actually possible. After school I completed a two year foundation course before going on to Loughborough College of Art & gaining a degree in printed textiles – so mark making is my thing! Proper proportion is essential …