As an artist if I don’t create each day I feel like a fraud, and more than that the work suffers, in the studio and at the office. Typically I work in large format, in a studio, and my pieces take months to complete.

I asked myself “What if I turn this on its head”? “What if I work smaller, quicker, and work anywhere?”

So I bought a large sketchbook. It sat blank for a few weeks. Then I bought a smaller sketchbook. It also sat unused for weeks.

Discouraged about it one day in my office I opened my desk drawers and saw a sharpie and post it notes pad. I though “Ok if I can’t fill one of THESE up a day I should just hang it up.” Happily I managed to do just that, for a year. Then another year.

The “Draw Every Day Series” continues to resonate with me and with attendees to my studio or exhibitions. Packaging the little drawings up in plastic bags gave the small pieces a consumerist, “art snack” feel - and seeing row upon row of them on a wall is a an kind of visual diary of life that’s interesting.

Happy the series packs a punch on a few levels - good stuff ;-D