Roger Towndrow – Resident artist for July

Winter and Spring 1.
Graphite on paper
29.7 x 42 cm

My practice centres on drawing, while exploring a range of subject matter through series. This has included imaginative landscapes, decorative plant studies influenced by 17th century botanical illustrations, and more recently work based on tree studies from nearby Tehidy woods. Predominantly, I have used pencil on paper as the vehicle for these explorations, finding that the modesty, rawness and limited nature of the medium provides a discipline and structure from which to describe a varied and disparate imaginative experience.

I am engaged by the ability of drawing to act as a medium for concentrated study, but also sometimes the opposite – the distraction of doodling, or the noting of initial ideas.