Portfolio
Lost Spaces
I started my project with some pencil drawings
Exploring dip pen
Adding colour to pieces, exploring the way they change
I started to look at the texture found in different surfaces in my buildings
Developing this into a screen print
Experimenting with adding colour
Contrasting pencil and charcoal
Responding to John Piper
Exploring tone and line
I returned to texture, taking rubbings from the exterior of the building
inks
A lino print
Smaller pencil drawings
I collected and drew broken fragments of brick from the building
I took plaster casts
Quick drawings from a stone
Mondrian
I carved into my casts, thinking about how Henry Moore shapes his figures
Focusing on the space around the figure
Mondrian
Using Cardboard to build layers
Further development of cardboard
1clay tiles shaped around the brick fragments
My most recent work…
David Tress
Sketchbook
Accidental Surfaces:
the everchanging surface of the water
My wall space before the first lockdown
My earliest work focused on subjects such as this garlic
I experimented with colour
Looking at ways to create textural surfaces
Two responses to weathered brick
Looking at charcoal as a medium
Looking at water
monoprinting
Responding to Maggi Hambling
Simplifying the surface texture of water
Responding to Clyfford Still
Responding to Turner
Different formats
Simplifying the drawing
Etching
Responding to Gerhardt Richter
Combining images using a photocopier
Maggi Hambling
Exploring for final pieces
Using a dip pen
Textural surfaces
Life Drawing