Charcoal sketchbooks
- Date:
- 2014-2019
- Reference:
- PP/LIZ/A/1
- Part of:
- Liz Atkin Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
The following description was provided by Liz Atkin:
"Sketchbooks became a useful redirection of anxety and skin picking around 2015, when I returned to work and had to commute for an hour and a half to get to Arts Depot to teach after recovering from nervous breakdown. Repetition, compulsion and getting my hands and fingers messy drawing with charcoal became a significant recovery tool from here onwards. These sketches and doodles initiated larger scale Pouring mountains in my studios and later my anxiety digital drawings. They mark a significant change in my art practice as they were the first stages of drawing, and later evolved into the compulsive charcoal drawings on newspapers when I ran out of a sketchbook on one of my commutes."
"Sketchbooks became a useful redirection of anxety and skin picking around 2015, when I returned to work and had to commute for an hour and a half to get to Arts Depot to teach after recovering from nervous breakdown. Repetition, compulsion and getting my hands and fingers messy drawing with charcoal became a significant recovery tool from here onwards. These sketches and doodles initiated larger scale Pouring mountains in my studios and later my anxiety digital drawings. They mark a significant change in my art practice as they were the first stages of drawing, and later evolved into the compulsive charcoal drawings on newspapers when I ran out of a sketchbook on one of my commutes."
Publication/Creation
2014-2019