Above: Shapes and Composition, A3 drawings made with charcoal, chalk, fine liner, pencil and acrylic paint. Creating compositions from traced bark pieces, exploring patterns.
Above: Repeated Tracings, A3 drawings made with fine liner, brio, pencil, acrylic paint and felt tip. Layered tracings of sculpture pieces.
Above: Tree Rubbings, A3 rubbings made with charcoal, chalk and graphite. Rubbed elements on paper with a backing of trees, mixture of textures and patterns.
Above: Interrupted Drawings, A3 drawings made with charcoal, chalk, pencil and graphite. A mix of drawings and rubbings. Working from each other to extract various elements into each of the work.
In my first year at Bath Spa University, my practice involved looking at and being inspired by nature, being outside in gardens or parks. My work started with observational drawings that led to to plaster sculptures. These developed into pattern studies on paper made with a range of materials mainly all in monochrome; pencil, pen, ink, acrylic paint and graphite. I took rubbings of trees on various scales; from A5 to 3 metre rolls of paper. I interpreted some of these rubbings into unknown drawings; looking at form, composition, line, tone, texture and the object itself. I collected found objects like pieces of bark where I exhausted repetitive shapes into patterns. The photographs below show the development, experimental and finished works of this project. Photographs show the studio space where I worked during the year. These include long 2 metre and 3 metre rubbings that developed to and from drawings. Processes include drawing, rubbings casting and sculpture.
Above: Hannah Gaskin, Series of A3 and A4 drawings, all using biro and fine liner, December 2017.
Above and below: Hannah Gaskin, Summer of love, series of A6 biro drawings, June-September 2017.