Marginalia

Marginalia I. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 10 x 15 cm. 2008
Marginalia II. Oil, oil pastel and collage on canvas.  15 x 12cm. 2008
Marginalia III. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia IV. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 14 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia V. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia VI. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 12 x 17 cm. 2008
Marginalia VII. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia VIII. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia IX. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia X. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia XI. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia XII. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia XIII. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 21x15cm 2008
Marginalia XIV. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia XV. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 29.5 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia XVI. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia XVII. Oil, oil pastel and collage on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia XVIII. Oil and oil pastel on paper. 2008
Marginalia XIX. Oil, oil pastel and collage on paper. 15 x 21 cm. 2008
Marginalia XX. Oil, oil pastel and collage on paper. 10 x 15 cm. 2008

Marginalia (n.pl.): 1. notes written in the margins of a text; 2. marginal notes or embellishments; 3. nonessential items.

This is an open-ended series of drawings which evolved in the margins of my practice during the years 2008 and 2009. The surfaces that they are made on were left-overs originally used to imprint paint onto a series of large paintings, and bear the traces of this process. In a similar way these small-scale works act as ‘catchment areas’ to capture the spill-over of side-lines and tangents to my main trains of thought at the time, functioning as an extension of my sketchbook. In hindsight, it emerges that a common thread running through them is the idea of boundaries, and the definition, construction and deconstruction of inside and outside.