When I was a kid I loved drawing butterflies. I would spend hours reading about them and looking at a book I had brought at school about them and making up new butterfly designs. I love English butterflies, however when I go somewhere foreign, the new types of butterfly are very fascinating. In Greece, I've seen two types of swallowtail, the large almost birdlike one that glides around the tree tops and the smaller more common type that is seen across the Mediterranean. This Swallowtail is the smaller variety. I'd never seen the Med in spring until this year. The wild life, flowers and of course butterflies are amazing. The weather is much warmer than in Britain during spring which means that one can have lots of comfortable walks in the countryside and take it all in.
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| Swallowtail, Petrovac na Moru, Montenegro, graphite and coloured pencil on paper, A3 (2016) |
This drawing is the first graphite pencil drawing that I've worked on since 2012. The past few years have been spent developing work with carbon/charcoal pencil, pen and paint so I thought it was time to revisit old fashioned pencil again.
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