…And more people who won’t hold a pose. A treat in the studio when we were entertained by an acrobat one afternoon. He lifted and held his weight rigidly over posts, did cartwheels on the floor, and rolled around the floor -tucking in and untucking, and stretching his limbs. For a while I tried to catch multiple movements on one sheet of paper. By the end of the session I was drawing at a largish scale in fluid, confident lines, in a minimal style quite new to me. So loose and fast and different to my normal style that these last ones are my favourite, only a shame they’re drawn on newsprint so I must find a way of preserving them before they fall apart! I didn’t know I had this kind of fluidity in me so I’d be grateful for comments on where I could take it next!
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About thetownmouse
I’m Joanna Moore, a compulsive drawer and architectural historian. I studied Architecture and History of Art at university, and completed the postgraduate Drawing Year at the Prince’s Drawing School, where I won the Patron’s Prize. I have exhibited in Spitalfields, the Tea Building in Shoreditch, the Prince’s Drawing School, and Southwark Cathedral. All my work is produced, or developed, from drawings done from observation. I never use a camera, and work on site, whatever the weather. My prints and paintings are often re-worked from these original drawings, many monotypes are created on location.
When I’m not drawing, I can be found continuing to work for Prince’s Drawing School, teaching 10-14 year-olds drawing at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the Prince’s Drawing Clubs, cycling through the streets of London, baking, or winding down with a Gn’T and a cat on my lap. This blog is a personal diary of my ambition to draw and make, my work, travels and inspirations.
Why the town mouse? It seemed appropriate for how I feel scampering around my favourite city and drawing on street corners.
I don’t have anything constructive to say, but they’re fabulous drawings