Looking, drawing and making — a daily creative practice inspired by the British seasons.
My art practice begins with looking.
Every morning, before breakfast, I draw what is in front of me - the small details of everyday life. Day 8 of the 10 prompts I follow: “Shapes and add pattern inside” follows the seasons including trees, plants, landscapes, buildings and light.
What began as a simple daily ritual has become Sketching Not Scrolling: a way of slowing down, paying attention and recording the changing colours, shapes and rhythms of the British seasons.
These drawings feed directly into my studio practice, inspiring my oil paintings, printmaking and textile designs.
SKETCHING NOT SCROLLING
A daily practice of looking, drawing and noticing
Before breakfast, I make time to draw.
The drawings are not intended to be finished pieces of artwork. They are quick observations - capturing a colour, shape, pattern, plant, landscape or moment before it changes.
Over 950+ of morning drawings, my sketchbooks have become a visual diary of the seasons and a growing library of ideas.
Colours become brighter. Shapes become simplified. Patterns emerge through repetition.
The sketchbook is where much of my work begins. Daily observations - captured quickly in the sketchbook.
Pages from my ongoing visual diary.
Daily Sketchbooks - Spring & Summer
Day 8 “Shapes & add pattern inside” British Seasons
Daily Sketchbooks - Autumn & Winter
Day 8 “Shapes & add pattern inside” British Seasons
FROM SKETCHBOOK TO STUDIO
Morning drawing → painting → printmaking → textile
My sketchbook is where ideas begin. A morning drawing might become an oil painting, a print, a pattern or a textile design.
Drawing keeps the work spontaneous. Painting allows me to build colour. Printmaking introduces texture, chance and physicality. Textile design brings together colour, pattern and scale.
FROM ART TO TEXTILES
The beginning of British Seasons
The connection between my art and textile design has always been important to me.
My daily drawings became the starting point for British Seasons — a collection of colour-drenched fabrics inspired by the changing landscape around me.
The collection brings together hundreds of observations: spring flowers, autumn trees, winter light, summer colour and the shapes and rhythms I see throughout the year.
What starts in a sketchbook can ultimately become something to live with.
KEEP LOOKING - Look. Notice. Draw. Make.
My creative practice continues to move between drawing, painting, printmaking and textiles.
The materials may change, but the starting point remains the same: