Sketches: Graphite on Paper with Light

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2013), Digital Photos

Sketches: Recording Folds in Paper

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2013), Gouache on Paper

IMG Series: Work in Progress

Charley Peters, Sketches for IMG Series (2013)

I will be showing new work from the IMG Series, which documents folded graphite drawings, in my forthcoming solo show Reduction at Public House Projects, London SE15 4HY. The images above are digital photographic sketches developed while making new work in the series. The exhibition opens on July 26th 2013.

More information about Public House Projects: http://www.publichouseprojects.org

I am currently showing IMG_8535 in the Print & Photo Open Salon 2013 at Charlie Dutton Gallery, London WC1R 4AX.

Sketches

Charley Peters, Untitled Drawings (2013), Acrylic, Pastel, Spray Paint, Acrylic on Paper and Post-It Notes

Sketches

Sketch

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketch (2012), Graphite Powder and Acrylic on Paper

Sketches: Lines and Forms in Space

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2012), Graphite on Paper

A new series of drawings exploring the spatial relationships of directional lines within the paper plane. Using a variety of media including graphite, tape, acrylic and graphite powder, depth and perspective is suggested through deliberately restrained drawing methods in these small works on paper.

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketch (2012), Graphite Drawing on Two Layers on Tracing Paper

Using powdered graphite on a variety of treated grounds (including glue, tape and spray fixative) irregular and unpredictable textures are created to introduce an extra level of experience to the drawings, encouraging a contrasting relationship between precise, controlled marks and randomly created areas of varying tonality.

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2012), Graphite, Glue, Tape, Acrylic & Graphite Powder on Paper 

A work in progress...

Sketches

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2012), Graphite on Paper

Sketches

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2012), Graphite on Paper

Somnolence: Lines in Space

Charley Peters, from Somnolence series (2011), Graphite on Black Paper

The Somnolence series of drawings based on intersecting lines is continuing to be developed in the studio. The example above shows the recent exploration of graphite on black paper to create a somewhat ghostly, semi-lustrous image, with asymmetric masking of the left and right sides of the drawing. Quick drawings in sketchbooks (below) suggest depth and viewing position through the proximity and position of the lines on the page, and illustrate the removal of tight masking from the upper and lower limits of the drawings present in earlier drawings in the series.

Charley Peters, sketches for Somnolence (2011), Ink and Marker Pen on Paper

Grids and Non-Grids

Charley Peters, Untitled (2011), Ink on Paper

Recent work in the studio has been exploring grids and the repetitive application of lines on and across such rigid structures. One example of these gridded drawings can be seen above, in this case successive straight lines are drawn in ink onto white paper. These drawings are still in development, but have led to further sketches where the grid is removed altogether (see below).

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2011), Ink on Paper

In these works the formal composition of the lines on the paper becomes important to suggest movement and harmony between the elements in the drawing - especially in the later exploration of materials where the lines are applied in a variety of media. The final examples shown here employ graphite, ink and paint in the same drawing, on both mid-tone grey papers (below) and semi-transparent paper (not shown).

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2011), Graphite, Ink and Paint on Paper

Sketches: Praxis

Charley Peters, Sketches for Praxis Series (2011), Ink on Paper

The above exploratory drawings from sketchbooks illustrate some recent developments in the Praxis series of systematic drawings, using masking and angled lines to interrupt the drawn surface.

Sketches: Opposing Lines

Charley Peters, Sketches (2011), Ink on Paper

Sketches: Somnolence

Charley Peters, Sketches for Somnolence (2011), Pencil Crayon on Paper

Sketches: Rupture

Charley Peters, Sketches for Rupture (2011), Ink on Paper

The images above illustrate the continuing development of the Rupture series of drawings, which explore the relationship between intersecting lines through monochrome and colour studies. These drawings display a closer positioning of lines than in previous Rupture sketches, each drawn systematically below the previous line in both horizontal and diagonal directions in a manner similar to an inkjet printer generating an image. The pressure and proximity of the lines is not pre-determined, but rather instinctively or randomnly drawn by hand, which suggests movement and depth in the picture plane.

Sketch for Rupture (2011), Ink on Paper (detail)

Paroxysm

Charley Peters, Paroxysm (detail) (2011), Ink on Paper

Work continues on the Paroxysm series, developing the initial sketches into larger pieces of work (70cm x 100 cm) that explore repetitively drawn lines of different weights and trajectories.

Charley Peters, from the Paroxysm series (2011), Ink on Paper

Sketches: Rupture

Charley Peters, Sketch for Rupture series, Ink on Paper (2011)

Early sketches for a new series of works provisionally titled Rupture, where intersecting coloured lines collide within a drawing.

Charley Peters, Sketches for Rupture series, Ink on Paper (2011)

Sketches: Opposing Lines

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketch (2011), Ink on Paper

Some early developmental sketches exploring compositions of opposing lines. The lines are set on a deconstructed grid, where the proximity of the lines suggests movement, depth and perspective within the picture plane.

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2011), Ink on Paper

Sketches: Somnolence

Charley Peters (2011) Sketches for Somnolence, Ink on Paper