About Me
I'm a Melbourne based Architect and Illustrator who loves to draw. I've lived in Melbourne for almost a decade and I studied architecture at QUT in Brisbane, Queensland many years ago. My interest in drawing was initially sparked by witnessing the level of craft and mastery that QUT industrial designers (lecturers/tutors) would achieve in their drawings. The notion of mastery of the analogue craft of drawing connected with me early on even though as an 18 year old I didn't have the vocabulary or the theoretical training to articulate my ideas. This notion of slowness in production, and even greater slowness in learning the craft brings with it a sense of deep contemplation and observation of the subject being studied or formulated. The sense of craft speaks to me, and the act of drawing, especially very slowly with a pen in hand brings about a fleeting mental and psychological state of calmness and peace that that those who've never picked a pen would never experience.
The subjects I draw vary and I find it's more interesting to describe what they aren't rather than what they. What they aren't is modern or modernist buildings, or as a rule of thumb, anything built by humans in the post war years aka after 1950. As a young man I struggled to define my ideas or even articulate them, but I often sensed them. And I sensed that the modern world is a deeply and profoundly ugly world that is contemptuous of beauty. Drawing landscapes and flowers at times feels like a private and quiet act of resistance.