#elizabethwillow

The final set from the Book of Forgiveness is the landscape pages or images. The Open Table had asked me to build an altar frontispiece for the first LGBT affirming Anglican Communion in the UK here in Liverpool at Saint Brides where my exhibition had been. this art starts with the photo of it as finished, then to some of the planning drawings, then to the mantra planning for Buddhashanti’s painting, and finally to a picture of the amazing Elizibeth Willow on an afternoon in the Victoria Gallery #archiving #ideasdevelopment #sketchbook #drawing #journaling #elizabethwillow #opentable #lgbtq🌈 #queerartist #liverpoolartist (at Toxteth, L8) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch94vcfse5l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The recently promoted Sketchbook 13 and a half, The Book of Refuge, continues with a set of landscape format or double page drawings. These include the view of Barmouth from the Fairbourne side at Miramar, a lovely concrete bridge protected by a thickset gentleman from a tv listings magazine, the outline of the roof of Miramar from further up, the road to the left further past the little petrol station, Elizabeth looking down from the graveyard, the beach near the old Italian prisoner of war camp, some photos at a stop off to buy scones and tea, Elizibeth wandering in the woods wearing a broad brimmed hat, sitting in the beach feeling some clarity after breathing meditation, and the beach flowers Elizabeth made from muscle shells. #2000s #sketchbooks #drawing #beautifulwales #elizabethwillow #sea #wandering #meditation #flowers #sea #queerartist #liverpoolartist #memories #nostalgia #archive #journaling (at Barmouth North Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/CejCttosRil/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Book of Dangers is over but rather than go direct to sketchbook 14 I feel the need to also archive a little part complete notebook that was from 2002. I didn’t initially include it because it was so partially complete and was only a travelling sketchbook for one week so it’s a little outside the flow but my immediate thoughts on self isolation are that I really want to go to the beach and breath fresh air now that winter is over. This is from a week when the excellent Barb Marshal (Bahoobha) invited me and the brilliant and unique Elizabeth Willow to her lovely home called Miramar up on a mountain on the Fairbourne side of the water overlooking Barmouth. We were there for about 4 or 5 days but I drew quite a few little line drawings and took some photos on a low res digital camera I borrowed from the college. Bahoobha always was enormously generous and made us very welcome and, as ever it was a privilege to spend time with Ms Willow. This book then, from that happy week of sunshine and sea had no name so in response to the previous book being called the Book of Dangers, I offer you the Book of Refuge. Here are the woven outside cover, a view through one of the concrete sea defences, a very calm looking Christ crowned with thorns, a shot of the view and a drawing of the road from Arthog drawn in line and crushed in flowers and grass that gave a delicate pigment which has surprisingly stayed on the page for 18 years. (I experimented with grasses, buttercups and bluebells in this book) next is a Cornelia Parker reference by Barb, a doodle of a little window in a chapel we visited, a mummified flower and the bridge to Barmouth, a window and chimney pots at Miramar. Simple beauty to remember and celebrate #2000s #sketchbook #drawing #elizabethwillow #beautifulwales #sea #wandering #meditation #flowers #queerartist #liverpoolartist #memories #nostalgia #archive #journaling (at Fairbourne) https://www.instagram.com/p/CebEWFDsvN4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Book of Dangers is over but rather than go direct to sketchbook 14 I feel the need to also archive a little part complete notebook that was from 2002. I didn’t initially include it because it was so partially complete and was only a travelling sketchbook for one week so it’s a little outside the flow but my immediate thoughts on still isolation are that I really want to go to the beach and breath fresh air now that winter is over. This is from a week when the excellent Barb Marshal (Bahoobha) invited me and the brilliant and unique Elizabeth Willow to her lovely home called Miramar up on a mountain on the Fairbourne side of the water overlooking Barmouth. We were there for about 4 or 5 days but I drew quite a few little line drawings and took some photos on a low res digital camera I borrowed from the college. Bahoobha always was enormously generous and made us very welcome and, as ever it was a privilege to spend time with Ms Willow. This book then, from that happy week of sunshine and sea had no name so in response to the previous book being called the Book of Dangers, I offer you the Book of Refuge. Here are the woven outside cover, a view through one of the concrete sea defences, a very calm looking Christ crowned with thorns, a shot of the view and a drawing of the road from Arthog drawn in line and crushed in flowers and grass that gave a delicate pigment which has surprisingly stayed on the page for 18 years. (I experimented with grasses, buttercups and bluebells in this book) next is s Cornelia Parker reference by Barb, a doodle of a little window in a chapel we visited, a mummified flower and the bridge to Barmouth, a window and chimney pots at Miramar. Simple beauty to remember and celebrate #2000s #sketchbook #drawing #elizabethwillow #beautifulwales #sea #wandering #meditation #flowers #queerartist #liverpoolartist #memories #nostalgia #archive #journaling (at Barmouth) https://www.instagram.com/p/B95KtmOgY2_/?igshid=kt5539qwibjb