A realisation...

I had a fabulous time up in London where I gave a talk on my academic cybersex research at London's Science Museum. I also managed to visit the Courtauld to see Frank Auerbach's incredible exhibition of charcoal drawings. It totally took me back into my past when I used to draw all the time - and I was so inspired by the impact of seeing this show that it re-ignited such emotive feelings for me. I then had a realisation, that working in academia for so long had sapped any emotive context to my art work. When I got home, I found one of my old sketchbooks from the early 90's and I could see, with new and older experienced eyes, that the work was very emotive, The drawing marks had an indelible emotional grit about them, as I was exploring new facets of my creativity at the time. 

Talking at the London Science Museum. There was a great crowd, and the whole event was fun and really well organised! 

I'm agog at looking at the charcoal drawings!!

Here are some of my early emotive self portrait drawings hidden in an old sketch book - these are the ones that are emotive.

Consequently, I am now doing new emotive work. The current self portrait work below is large, (over 30 years since the drawings above) and is done with acrylics, oil paints, oil pastels and charcoal. This is a new departure for me, and I am very excited about it.