Drawing

070307 (detail) 2007

I was given the book "Vitamin D' for Christmas and am only now sitting down to start absorbing it.  One artist whose work I love is in the book - Frances Richardson.  In a statement on the Contemporary Art Society she talks about her work :


Making a mark is a gestural act that for me scores the intangible physical reality of being in a moment and the suspension and presentation of this moment to the viewer. 

An Instant (detail) 2006

She works with + and - creating undulating, gestural yet sensitive marks on the paper.

Paradise Lost 2002