TACITA DEAN

Below – ‘The Montafon Letter’ Chalk on Blackboard

I love the vast scale of this piece. Along with the technical detail, its quite breathtaking! How does the artist map and plan out this type of image? How does the artist know where to start? It demonstrates great subtly of tone. Moving from black to white, with many tones of grey in-between. I need to work on subtlety of tone in my own work. I need to practise grades of tone in my pre-work. I could then apply this to some aspects of my own work.

Below – The Roaring Forties chalk on blackboard

Again, its the scale of these works that leaves the most impression of the viewer. Also, the way the chalk is used so subtly that makes you feel the mist and waves. The lines of the drawing strongly suggest direction and movement. I can see that you don’t need tons of detail and shading to produce a full powerful effect of a boat in a storm.

Below ‘FOREIGN POLICY’ 2016 CHALK ON BLACKBOARD

Again, like in the drawing of the mountain, the use of tone creates depth, volume and movement. It is a very impressive, beautiful effect. My use of tone is far from this level of subtlty. It would be great to create vast skies using this level of tone creation.