Extreme sports are activities that offer adrenaline rushes to the participant. mistakes in these sports are costly.

This composition is part of a series inspired by a trip to india. The health and safety out there is a little more relaxed than on British shores, in-fact 5 people on a motorbike or coconut tree climbing was something of a common occurrence.

Anjuna market began in the 60's,  hippies sold their possessions to afford the plane ticket home. With elephant riders, hassle and hustle,  drum sellers,  coloured faces,  jewels,  clothes and particularly lanterns i noticed, one can quickly overwhelmed. Except dad, who sleeps and sleeps throughout my sketchbooks. (you can see him bottom left)

Goa has a literacy rate of 87%, with 90% of males and 84% of females able to read!

John and Mamie dreaming.... in the daytime

Fishermen are people who by profession catch and sell wild fish.  66 % percent of these people say they prefer bare feet, and 72% of Goan fishermen don't know how to swim.

Airports. Hate em,  love them,  dread em.. ! I just find there are lots of people, which means a lot of waiting around.

"i did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until i saw Heathrow for myself ~ Dennis Potter 

These compositions are pieced together from the work in my sketch books  (that accompany me everywhere).  In the scene above,  based on the observations at gatwick terminal,  i made sure i maintain the spontaneous quality of the line that was so inherent when these drawings were originally made.

Work documenting the journey to india helped inform my more final and organised compositions in the slides above.  

John stil sleeping...

The young rascals

On the way out of shiolem by the big nivea advertisement sighns -  Goa,  there is a little village of tents, held up by wooden frames covered with thin coloured fabrics. The people that live here know as much about us- as we about them.  And the little kids were particularly talented in front of the camera!

Got teeth into it

Height - id say just below the knee,  Doesn't stop er havin better rhythm than me

We wander for distraction.

Notice how everyone is wrapped in hats and coats,  -  The merrium centre is about as cold as the deep freeze section of a supermarket.

Agonda, went for a wander, saw some huts, fat lady in a swimming costume, few lounging tourists and all the time the fishermen kept fishing and john bounced his bouncy ball.

"Goa is less a state of india and more a state of mind" - it seems it is a paradise built for the leisure of visitors. 

baga 

squares

Sneaky snapshot from College roof

yates. leeds

More photos around leeds

A few caught moments of stillness amongst the rangle tangle chaos of Anjuna market
India

Task - to pick an object, and pull it through a number of constraints to detach it from its original representation. The drawing on the left was in response to making something diagrammatic gestural, and the right,  - make something simple complex 

Sample of the 3 week project, making is thinking - create 100 squares, using the forms of a chosen shape, and a chosen letter. Think about surface, repetition, restriction, composition.

 I ended up making the letter and form evolve around a small narrative of joke.

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Photos around leeds.  Independent work

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Project: Subversion - To undermine, or derail the origional meaning or reading." 

I chose 'traffic cones'. With a specific association to order and regulations, these cones are originally used to redirect or stop traffic for safety purposes. So i looked at what happens when they take on a different instructions. "Like keep going", or "it's alright you go in front".

This print happened by accident, when a stencil i had cut out ended up on the surface of my newly coloured up board. But it all worked out as a beautifully colourful group of strangers.