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Love letter – new drawing

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Love letter – ink on paper, 56 x 40cm, Lily Mae Martin 2025.

Stippling and crosshatching forever and ever.

Orchids – (cannot remember the size, almost A4, at the framers), ink on paper, Lily Mae Martin 2025.

It has taken a long time to try and resolve the direction of my drawings; these two took me a painfully long time to complete. I’m ok with them, but very excited about the next few drawings I am currently working on.

The enemy is in your bed

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The enemy is in your bed – pencil sketch, A6, 2023.

I thought a light leaded pencil best for something which this title – subtle and heavy.

The title came to me a while ago, before I could work out how to make a drawing for it.

The medium and execution speak to vulnerability, the focus being the throat – one of the most vulnerable places of our body. (Prosody). This is a reflection on those being the closest to us can often be the worst for us; unsafe. I noticed this when I was young but didn’t yet have the words for. This is a both personal and universal experience.

Art for me is powerful – it moves with me through life, communicates, resonates, and gives me a voice when it has been taken away.

 

Sometimes

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Spent the afternoon drawing the same tree.

Sometimes it is better to study short and sweet and then spend the day hatching and crosshatching onto paper.

These trees around me are amazing. There are many galahs, kookaburras, currawongs,sulphur crested  cocokatoos, corellas, crows, magpies and black yellow tailed cockatoos flying above. So much life. The morning and evening sunlight and the colour of the sky is always beautiful. This is what I get to look at when I’m just doing the daily bizzo.