Apples and pears Winter The suggestive outlines and abstract

The suggestive outlines and abstract forms shift expectations

I like to work from some of the sketches and drawings I have made during my visits and as in this case begin to work them up to a painting

This encapsulates the eternal tension of nature's raw elements

I use the background to help orientate myself to the negative spaces as I draw

Apples and pears Winter The suggestive outlines and abstractThe title is based on the Cockney rhyming slang for stairs if it were a portrait of my wife it would be.. yes you know ittrouble and strife! As with several of my still life drawings of fruit the exercise is about colour and form and line and many other things too. For me the most important element is the opportunity to reflect and think with my subject in front of me. These marker pens are great fun to use and they allow layers of colour and tone to