ABSTRACT
Drawing is closer to poetry than to prose or painting. It is free to act irrationally, think the unthinkable and ignore convention. Like poetry it can be intuitively understood; it crosses cultures and generations. Drawing can act through grace or awkwardness; it can reveal the most profound truth or conceal it; adopt the starkest linear austerity or the most indulgent excess. It can do all this within a very small space and with the minimal means of pen or pencil on paper. Colour is a bonus to be exploited occasionally.
