Sketch Book Tour

Welcome to my sketch book! These drawings have been done over a period of 6 months. Some are reflections of how I was feeling at the time, others a reflection upon my surroundings, below each image is a short explanation outlining the inspiration of each page.

Left: inspired by some National Geographic images of octopi

Right: This is how I spent most of my summer in 2019; reading and drinking tea under a tree in the garden

Right: This is a continuing page of small individual paintings of small things I find the beauty in, for example: rose quartz, a mouse I had sewn and water balloons

Left: Acrylic inspirational quote

Left: Cosmic tea, a study of hands and a mismatch of stars and sea

Right: An illustration of a woman with floating blonde hair and a red band covering her eyes. Beneath her are three fish which were inspired by a post I saw.

Crossing both pages are the two hands joining the cosmos and deep ocean, inspired by Adam touching the hand of God painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Left: Inspiration taken from Jonna Jinton, a Swedish woman who lives in the woods in the North of Sweden and practices the art of kulning which is the name of the ancient Swedish herdingcall. https://www.youtube.com/user/JonnaJinton/featured

Right: A goddess sprinkling garden plants with magic

Left: The passage reads: 'Dream of things others are scared to dream of. Always remain curious, ponder the mystical, wonder about things that are impossible, infinite and intangible. Take the time to think, indulge in thoughts and give yourself the time and space to dream Just because others don't understand your dreams doesn't mean they're not valuable'. This was written as I was just discovering Astrosociology, I knew what my ideas were but no body really understood. Despite this I've worked hard and kept on dreaming and know that one day I'll get there.

Right: This represents the left and right side of the brain. The lower half depicts the more logical side, but still retains creativity in the layout and colour of shapes. The upper half is an extract from a psychology journal and although at first glance appears to be a piece of creative writing it retains logic through its structuring. Thus both halves of the brain must rely on each other and cant operate with pure logic or reasoning, there is overlap.

Taken from a picture I saw showing a group of sharks circling in some type of well

Inspired by the physics course I took online which mentioned one of Einsteins famous quotes 'time is suspect'.

Inspired by some of the cats around my neighbourhood and the autumn season

Inspired by Nam June Paiks' exhibition at the Tate where there was a installation which separated a real time video of you into the primary colours which overlapped and moved.

Left: Inspired by Issac Newton and the Copernican System, with a focus on how at times science can constrict or influence further exploration

Right: Inspired by a more contemporary version of constriction; money and technology (although this is not always the case)

Left: Inspired from an image I saw online

Right: drawn whilst I was incredibly bored in an attempt to demonstrate how I felt

A play on ' it's what's on the inside that counts'

A frog with toadstools growing on its back and floating orbs of colourful water suspended above. The passage reads: This light is presence, this light is power. It fills me, until I am presence, and I am power.

A skull study drawing from different angles which at times merge into one another

More of an existential drawing, caught in the swirls of thought which drag people under

Both images are inspired by psychedelic art and an attempt to use more colour and pattern

Left: A crown of candle, a fire queen caught in a glitch

Right: A study of lamps

Inspired by spiderwebs, I wanted to make a piece which illustrates their eeriness and beauty at the same time.