Online Drawing Development Year
2024

Self-Portrait, pastel, charcoal and pencil on paper, 2024, 29.7 x 42 cm
Landscape, pastel and pencil on paper, 2024, 26.3 x 9.3 cm

In 2024, I joined the Online Drawing Development Year (ODDY), a year-long programme by the Royal Drawing School in London, UK. This period marked a turning point in my practice.

Moving beyond coloured pencil, I began working with charcoal and soft pastel, expanding the material and expressive possibilities of my drawing. Collage also became an essential part of my practice, laying the foundation for the larger-scale, materially driven works that continue to shape my practice today.  


Drawing
as a way of learning to look


Study after Morandi, pastel
Study after Seurat, charcoal and conté
Study after Degas I, pencil
Study after Degas II, pastel


Still Life, pastel on paper, 2024, 37.7 x 26.5 cm
Leaf study, charcoal


Mugs, pastel on paper, 2024, 42 x 29.7 cm
Room, charcoal on paper, 2024, 63 x 29.7 cm


Time Square, pen and charcoal on paper,
2024, 14.8 x 21 cm
Oxford Street, charcoal on paper,
2024, 37.7 x 26.5 cm
Eden Project, pastel and charcoal on paper,
2024, 42 x 29.7 cm



Exploring
what drawing can become


Leaf study, charcoal
Leaf study, flour dough and pastel on cardboard
Leaf study, flour dough and pastel on cardboard


One’s Room, charcoal and conté on paper, 2024, 40 x 40 cm
One’s Room, pastel and conté on paper, 2024, 24 x 23.7 cm


Room painting, watercolour
Cut and reassembled room painting
Pastel drawing after the reassembled drawing


Butterfly, charcoal on paper,
2024, 29.7 x 21 cm
Butterfly I, pastel on paper,
2024, 12.5 x 8 cm
Butterfly II, pastel on paper,
2024, 12.5 x 8 cm
Butterfly III, pastel on paper,
2024, 12.5 x 8 cm

Still life arrangement
Serene Night, charcoal and conté on paper,
2024, 39.4 x 27.2 cm
Paradise, pastel, charcoal and conté on cardboard,
2024, 59.2 x 41.6 cm

 

Reconstructing drawings
into new relationships and forms



Paper collage
Silent Night, collage on paper, 2024, 42 x 29.7 cm


Topography drawing,
charcoal and paste
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Topography drawing,
charcoal and pastel

Series of collages from the topography drawings


Collage on charcoal drawing